You can watch today’s House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Competitiveness hearing—or read the testimony—here. Shorter clips are on YouTube.

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Jesse Singal is a former opinion writer for The Boston Globe and former web editor of the Washington Monthly. He is currently a master's student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy. Follow him on Twitter at @jessesingal.