Over the past decade, the Department of Education has painted career colleges as predatory schools eager to prey on naïve military veterans to feather their own pockets. It has been aided in this public smear campaign by allies on Capitol…
The following is authored by Captain Bob “Shoebob” Carey, U.S. Navy (Ret), Executive Director of the National Defense Committee Who would have thought the relatively small $787 million global market for something called “nitrocellulose” could place Israel’s, Taiwan’s, Ukraine’s, and…
Led by the National Defense Committee, a coalition of military and veterans’ organizations called on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona today to investigate “disproportionate representation” on the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking committees. Five organizations representing a broad range of military…
The Biden Administration’s requirement that most automobiles sold in the U.S. be electric vehicles (EVs) by 2023 will strain national infrastructure, limit consumer choice, and could jeopardize national security, National Defense Committee executive director Bob Carey writes in RealClear Defense….
In the Biden Administration’s effort to prop up failing conventional four-year colleges and universities, the Department of Education has put “mountains of red tape between veterans and their college choices,” Bob Carey wrote in RealClear Education last fall. Military service…
Rule changes proposed by the Biden Administration to expand the Department of Education’s authority to discharge student loan debt presents a “dangerous moral hazard” and would exacerbate the military’s recruiting and retention crisis, NDC executive director Bob Carey told negotiators…
The National Defense Committee called on the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) today to reconsider its 85/15 Rule, either by reinitiating the rulemaking process or rewriting the rule entirely. In a letter to Secretary Denis McDonough, executive direct Bob Carey…
In public comment before the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking committee on Program Integrity and Institutional Quality today, NDC executive director Bob Carey encouraged the committee to reject burdensome regulations that unfairly penalize career colleges and non-traditional universities. One of…
The government’s distrust of military members to make the best decisions for themselves and its pervasive attitude of condescending paternalism contributes to the military’s recruiting and retention crisis. Case in point: The Healthy SNAP Act of 2023, which was introduced…
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today the National Defense Committee (NDC) calls for diverse, unbiased representation for veterans and U.S. military members in the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking. “The Department’s negotiated rulemaking has immense,…
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