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Tune In: FIRE’s Joe Cohn to Testify Before Congress Tomorrow

FIRE Legislative and Policy Director Joe Cohn will testify tomorrow morning before the House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. Joe will represent FIRE on the subject of “Preventing and Responding to Sexual Assault on College Campuses.”
Joining Joe are Dana Scaduto, General Counsel for Dickinson College; Penny Rue, Vice President for Campus Life at Wake Forest University; and Lisa Maatz, Vice President for Government Relations at the American Association of University Women.
The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, September 10 at 10:00 a.m. EDT and will be livecast on the Education and Workforce Committee’s website.
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