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FIRE’s Joe Cohn to testify before House Committee on Education and the Workforce

Tomorrow morning, FIRE Legislative and Policy Director Joe Cohn will testify before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Joe will be representing FIRE during a hearing titled “Examining First Amendment Rights on Campus.”
Joe will be joined by FIRE Prometheus Society member and author Zach Wood, PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel, and Ken Paulson, president of the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
The hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Sept. 26, and it will be live streamed on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s YouTube page.
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