Be not incarcerated, but that this is one of the fundamental points of the bill. I can send this to your office and see if you can weigh in maybe want to cosponsor or jump in. Dr. Howard . We worked with kentucky. It is about changing norms and getting people aware that it can be your neighbor, not some scary picture that you are used to seeing. We have people telling stories of how they recovered from addiction. It is hopeful. He can see her colleague in that and it is just getting that message out there more with those stories of recovery and those stories of loss. Children that they lost due to addiction. And then attaching that to how to get help. Governor tomlin. Governor tomlin we have had some successes and we continue to strive just as much. But we have had successes in closing down these drug mills changing the rules, i agree with governor malloy that one state cannot do it. Kentucky and West Virginia have worked together to share information so that you do not have people crossing borders getting prescriptions and bringing them back. One thing ive noticed, a decline in estrogen drug abuse it has moved to heroin however. We have passed a bill because of the increase of hepatitis c and hiv cases, we have started to implement Needle Exchange programs. Because i think a lot of people with that as promoting drug abuse, but i think once you get it, you are using drug needles state will pay to treat you for many years to come. One of the other things with that, five years ago we did not have the communitybased Treatment Centers that we needed around the state. We have been able to work with the legislature to now have a lot more communitybased services. Many of them for women and children. Those are now in place and most of them are and we continue to expand those services. People really didnt, if they wanted to get off of drugs, they really didnt have a local assistance, or the whereabouts to go to a place. So i think that those will continue to be helpful. And also in the next 30 days we will have a statewide hotline if you need help and dont know where to go or who to talk to to allow people assistance or to get help, i think people get to the point where they dont know where to turn. It is up to us to be able to supply that. We need to give it to people who have a sincere wish to get clean and stay clean. I think that it is something all of us will need to continue for a long time. It is something that we cant eradicate and 35 years. We will continue to monitor it as the availability of different drugs comes about. Time for one more question. Governor hutchison . Governor hutchison what a great topic. I want to applaud my fellow governors. Thank you for sharing stories. Detective glenn, thank you for your leadership and furthermore. I wanted to make a couple observations. I understand the seriousness of this issue and the message that we have to treat them as people with addiction problems, but also crime problems. But i would encourage you to, and i think that you do, but recognize the Important Role that Law Enforcement plays. Whenever anyone has an addiction problem, it is rare that they say, i have a problem, i need help. It is generally when they are confronted by Law Enforcement officers that they first confront their addiction. And in Drug Court Graduation drug court dcorps graduation it it is usually that Law Enforcement that is thanked. It is so important. Law enforcement sometimes gets beat up on the head that they are the problem, rather than the solution. The other point dr. Howard made was at the role of the state medical boards. If there is any Lessons Learned across the state, because medical boards are independent and they are made up of physicians. They have a serious response ability when you have a physician prescription abuse problem and the disciplinary action that they take. If there are any good examples or models as to how these boards address this, i would be interested in that. And finally, im familiar with methamphetamines and no and the length of time needed for treatment, but if you have somebody in drug treatment, what is the optimum amount of time for someone with opioid abuse . 30 days is not enough, 60 days is not enough, what is the recommendation . I know that i raised a couple of different issues, but maybe dr. Houry, you have a comment . Dr. Houry there is no set time for opioid recovery programs. Mary bono my honest opinion is that it is a lifetime of recovery. That once they have a substance disorder, they battle it for the rest of their lives. That is why Early Intervention is key. It can be depending on the motivation of the individual, it can be sooner rather than later. But you made a good point everybody in the addiction world recognizes that for someone with Substance Abuse disorder, to seek help, they have to hit bottom. That means a lot of Different Things to a lot of people. That meeting that could mean crashing your car, getting fired, getting arrested, it could be a host of things. Intervention from Law Enforcement, god only knows. But then that person hopefully would recognize that there life is that their life is not getting better. It is important. I think you for the work you have done thank you for the work you have them. This is my last filibuster, there is hope for addiction and people in recovery. There is a good book out there right now called fearless. It was a bout a man who is addicted to cocaine and uppers and he beat that addiction. And he became part of an elite fighting group. He was killed in action, but his story was extremely powerful. I encourage everybody to read this book and find inspiration. As the detective said, it is lives we are saving. Thank you. Patrick glynn 30 days is great, but that is just one prong. Hopefully they are in recovery for a long. Of time. But there are relapses. That is not a failure. As far as Drug Recovery goes, they graduate many people and those people falter. The judge has no problem putting them back in the house of correction. They joke about it at graduation. How hard it was to go through and judge so and so put me back in jail, but that was a turning point for me. A quick example of the fact that they did belong to someone, a couple of years ago i received a package at the police station. It was nicely wrapped, it was christmas. I had a detective open it and they brought it back and it was from an individual that i had arrested a number of times. It was a christmas present. It was pajamas. They were very nice. It took that person to a point to see me as a human as i saw them as a human. I chuckled, there was a security tag on the lake of the pants. But the thought was there. [laughter] the thought was there. That was one of my biggest tipping points also, to think of someone as a person, but with multiple issues. They are still clean and sober after three years. It took a long time and that was a step that maybe they had to accomplish. That appreciation. It wasnt just appreciation for me, but for Law Enforcement in general, stating that we were out there helping, but also we are enforcing laws. I wanted to close with that. Dr. Houry that is hard to follow. I think that there is good and bad when it comes to state medical boards. We want them to work, but doctors also worry about if they are not prescribing enough, that complains go to medical boards. We want to ensure that doctors are safe from that. I do not have a happy story to share. It is difficult when you are on that front line and someone is asking for a prescription and you have to say no. We need to empower doctors and give them protections through the state medical board, to say no when it is not appropriate and have that difficult conversation with the patient. It is easy to given and say here you go. Many do not have an unhappy patient then you do not have an unhappy patient. I have referred patients before to pain clinics, but that is tougher to do and i think that we need to have these conversations so that people are aware of the growing problem and how we can make a difference. Governor beshear we will close out the session. I want to thank everybody for participating. It is obvious that this is a fundamental problem in our society and it is not going away. Unless we stay focused on it from state level to federal level, it will just get worse. If no one in your family, or no one in your extended family, or no one of your friends has ever been affected by this consider yourself lucky because it is everywhere now. I want to thank the nga for focusing on this, this is something we need to stay focused on and continue to learn from each other because there are good things going on out here in the different states and when we passed our legislation we pulled from a lot of places. We did not try to reinvent the wheel. We wanted to make sure that we were covering the waterfront. I cannot stress enough how it takes every stakeholder everybody, to make this work. It has to be many involved in this. Lets give a wrong lets give a round of applause to our penal. [applause] [applause] any closing comments . Very well done, very helpful. Thank you, that was fabulous. I want to thank you mr. Chairman. This is your last meeting of the summer. You made us proud to be governors. Governor beshear thank you. The u. S. Senate will be in session tomorrow to vote on the highway bill. For more on that, we talked to a capitol hill reporter. With current highway funding set to run out at the end of the month, the senate has voted to formally begin debate on its sixyear highway bill. Of politico, you write that as things got started ted cruz accused Mitch Mcconnell of telling a flat out lie. Tell us about that. Reporter it was a remarkable moment, rarely do you see a senator singling out another one in stark terms, accusing him of lying. Especially of especially a party leader. This does not happen usually, it is usually not like this, you are not supposed to look at senators directly. He is contending that Mitch Mcconnell assured him and other republicans that the nations chief Credit Agency that he did not cut a deal to allow them to move forward as part of the negotiations. That there would be separate trade legislation in may. Crews went to the floor and looked mcconnell in the eye, and mcconnell said very clearly i did not cut a deal with that bank, he only promised that members could offer this as an amendment. But what we saw on friday was that mcconnell took steps to bring the bank measures directly to the floor, assuming he could surpass the vote on sunday. Crews cruz said that this was backtracking, calling it a lie. Clearly he believes that this is an issue that plays well for him and his president ial campaign. Ted cruz is running his campaign as the man who is battling leadership. What was Mitch Mcconnells response to the accusations . Reporter it was a big smile. We sought in the hallway and afterwards, he smiled and walked away. We tried to reach out to his office, but his aid did not want to comment on the record. They are trying to avoid the controversy, they believe that if they engage with ted cruz, it will elevate him the way that he wants, so their strategy is not to give attention and ignore controversy. The senate is coming back for a rare sunday afternoon session and these two amendments, one of them on the bank that you mentioned and also on an amendment that would repeal the Affordable Care act, how did those get mixed up with the highway bill . Reporter the beauty of the senate. This was very clearly an effort by mcconnell, by allowing the bank measure to move forward and get those republicans some political coverage and say we are trying to do what we said we would do repealing obama care. Mcconnell said we should move forward with a procedural motion causing a vote on the obamacare repeal. We know that the obama repeal would not reach the vote, even if it did, the president would veto it. So it is mostly just a symbolic gesture. And the xm bank came about because of the deal that mcconnell cut over trade was of trade legislation. They knew that the would not go forward unless they had assurances. Now, the highway bill is the last vehicle to move that bank bill forward and it is supported by bipartisan majority. Clearly a want to allow a vote on that. They want to allow a vote on that. You also tweeted about a motion by ted cruz, who may overturn ruling of chair, its the same way read and vote nuclear option. Reporter essentially, ted cruz offered an amendment, saying that iran should recognize israels right to exist. This has nothing to do with the highway bill. The chair said it was not, who oversees the floor upheld the. To succeed, you need a majority of senators, but typically senators avoid doing that at all costs, because if you try to overrule every ruling of the chair, it would be chaos in the senate. There needs to be order. It is really dumb. Glass Congress Last congress did that when throwing into question the filibuster and wanted to override change of a filibuster rule on president ial nominees. That was referred to as the nuclear option. At that point, he could push that through and the filibuster was gutted. Ted cruz will not have the votes on this im sure. Particularly after his strong statements today. Democrats will not but with him and as a result ted cruz will fail at that. So the clock is ticking, the Senate Working on a sixyear deal, the house has passed a short extension to highway funding. Where does this end up at the of the month . Reporter house and senate are at different in ends of this, they have much different charities. We will see how this plays out. The house saying they will not pick up the senate bill. The house these expectations might be shortterm, there could be an extension, another shortterm extension for the highway program. Perhaps they could negotiate an agreement after the august recess. It does not look like any resolution for the highway bill before august. That was a Senior Reporter from politico, manu raju. The senate meets tomorrow. Votes will begin at 3 00 a. M. Watch and vote on cspan2. In his weekly address, the president discusses the effects of the dog frank banking rules. And at the center of oklahoma has the republican response. He talks about transportation funding. President obama it has been seven years since the worst financial crisis. A crisis that cost millions of americans their jobs, homes, their life savings. It was a crisis that cost all of us. It was a reminder that we are in this together. That is how we battled back. Together. We still have work to do, but we did prevent this second depression. We have created 13 million jobs the Housing Market is healthier the stock market has more than doubled, restoring savings. Americans of all stripes have buckled down and it worked to bring this country back. We had to do something more. We had to make sure that this crisis never happens again. That is why five years ago this week we in active the toughest wall street reform in history. New rules to protect businesses consumers, and the entire economy from irresponsibility that trend all of us. Five years later, here is what the reform has done. Wall street reform turned the page on too big to fail. Now in america, we welcome the pursuit of profit or it if your business fails, we shouldnt have to bail you out and according to new rules, we wont. Those days are over. Wall street reform allows us to crack down on the worst types of recklessness, big banks making risky bets to pay executives. Now there is a Consumer Protection bureau with one mission, to protect american consumers. Already gone after credit car companies, lenders, and they have one, putting nearly 11 billion back into the pockets of consumers who had been cheated. It is working and we are working to protect more families. This week we announced we are cracking down on the worst practices of lending on military bases, so that military troops and families to not get trapped in debt. We will do everything we can to protect consumers and the entire economy. None of this has been easy. We have had to overcome lobby campaigns and special interests in congress. They are still trying to attack everything that these reforms accomplished. They are hiding key protections in bills, they are blocking from doing their jobs and they claim that this is bad for business. This does not explain 13 million jobs in the market. It is only bad for business if your Business Model depends on recklessness that threatens the economy or there is possibility of working families. Response ability of working families. We cannot go back to the days where banks wrote their own rules. If anything comes to my desk i will veto it. We have worked too hard to recover from one crisis to risk another one. In america, we should reward fair play and that is what the reform of wall street does. It makes sure that everybody plays by the same set of rules. If we keep moving forward, keep building an economy that rewards response ability instead of recklessness, we can we will not keep coming back, well come back stronger than ever. Have a good weekend. Hello, i have the honor of serving as the chairman of the Senate Environment and public works committee. Passing a longterm transportation bill has been my top priority since coming to that committee. It is one of the most important issues congress deals with. That is why Barbara Boxer and i made it the topic of our First Committee meeting hearing that we had in january. There is no such thing as a republican road or democrat road, this issue transcends political fights in washington, because the Transportation System is our constitutionality responsibility. We recognize transportation and its importance by giving congress the responsibility to establish and regulate interstate. Thanks to president eisenhower, the national highway system was created and continues to serve as the backbone to a Strong National defense and economy through the movement services. This was but with a 50 year design life, now 60 years, now beyond its vision. It has in this requires a continued partnership between the federal government and eight. This is the hallmark states. We are considering it this week. I am a proud conservative became together with a liberal to Work Together to ensure that this is a strong partisan bill. It will be passed out of our committee unanimously on june 24. It has key components to make sure that transportation increases by 3 over the next years and provides longterm funding. We have also streamlined regulation and enforced new security measures to that taxpayers know how their money is spent. It is advanced research and innovation in transportation, so that we can have an infrastructure system in the u. S. This act is about putting america back on the map as a place to do business. Unfortunately since 2009 compass has passed 33 shortterm passages, this results in dollars being spent, like filling potholes. We have projects, today 54 of our roads are rated mediocre or poor. We are unable to keep up with the current traffic. The 20,000 miles of our highways that is significant due to congestion, 5. 5 billion hours and 3 billion gallons of gas were wasted in traffic in 2011. These numbers will continue to skyrocket. We have a new congress and a new republican majority. And it is time for this trend to end. The drive act is a solution. It is the solution. A bipartisan solution. It provides the needed longterm funding certainty so that Major Construction projects can get off the ground, projects that are possible with shortterm extensions. It