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We are blessed today to have Senator Marcia Blackburn with us.

She is the U.S. Senator for Tennessee.

And there's some stuff going on in Tennessee right now.

So we're glad you're joining us.

I'm delighted to join you always.

Well, I saw last week there was a hearing and you started talking about some of these

videos that were coming out from universities that were saying they were still including

diversity, equity, and inclusion in their programs, but they were changing the name of it.

So you've heard from some of these universities. So I wanted to let you talk about it a little.

Yes, indeed.

And we were having a hearing on DEI, on college campuses and in the workplace.

And that day, we get these videos coming out from the University of Tennessee and Belmont

and Vanderbilt.

Even though those colleges have removed DEI practices, you had individuals who were on faculty

and staff who were saying, oh, you know, we're still doing that. We're just doing it

under different names, and we're going about it a different way. So what we have done is to

reach out to each of the universities, and I've contacted each of the three universities. And, you know, Tudor,

we want to make certain that they're complying with federal and state law and that they have

removed DEI practices. All each of these universities, each of the three, is going through an audit, an independent

audit, to be certain that they have removed all the DEI practices.

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