With school out for the summer, the House subcommittees on Intergovernmental Affairs and Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules held a joint hearing Thursday morning to address the challenges to freedom of speech on college campuses.
Right as the doors opened at 7:30, a crowd of young people anxious to hear from the witnesses gathered outside the room, eventually growing so large that an overflow space had to be opened. Students waiting to be let into the hearing broke into cheers as Ben Shapiro was ushered down the hallway with comedian Adam Carolla, both of whom were slated to testify before the committees, along with representatives from the Anti-Defamation League, New York University Law School, and a former provost from Evergreen State College.
