And deductibles for millions of income americans , whobuy buyincome americans, who insurance on the marketplace. Our legislation will be based on believe hearings, and i i am chairman of that committee, and senator murray is the ranking democratic member. These hearings will be bipartisan, and they were remarkable in this sense. They engaged nearly 60 senators from both Political Parties and extensive discussions. Without only have the four hearings, which involved the 23 members of our health committee, but we invited any other senator who wished to comment to come to a Committee Meeting ahead of time to meet the Insurance Commissioners and others who were testifying, and 37 did. We have extensive participation by 60 members of the United States senate through Court Hearings and a variety of Committee Meetings in the process that developed this legislative proposal that senator murray and i have agreed upon. According to witnesses in our hearing, according to the Congressional Budget
Even by ship. At ourake another look federal freight policy, what advice would you give us to develop projects . Since we have approached planning from a regional in our area wed have to, we look at rail we have the northeast corridor. We have a number of spur lines. Most of them come from one location. We have freight coming in primarily from cecil county, maryland, coming down into delaware, spreading back and forth between states. Our Rail Networks are intertwined with our sister states. A regional approach is one way to look at this. We talk about the northeast corridor. The flexibility of funding is not tied to state lines. There are projects that are good for a number of states that it is hard for everyone to contribute to in one state. One of the things we have seen is, if we could potentially spread the local funding around, some of the projects that are waiting on funding along the northeast corridor technically, they are amtrak projects. Ther states could get projects moving,
The clery act. I can tell you in my 17 plus years in this agency, i have never been more impressed or proud of a role making effort. Work began on our implementation strategy after the passage and from the very beginning we have focused on reaching out to the people who are most affected by Campus Sexual Assault and to top exrts in fie who in may and june of last year the department held public hearings where we heard from students and advocates and institutional officials on a range of campus crime topics including the proper role of Law Enforcement and Campus Sexual Assault investigations and the need to find a balance between transparency and confidentiality. And the fall of 2013 we conducted our sessions with student groups, and Campus Safety advocates, campus Law Enforcement and other stakeholders to develop our understanding of their concerns andrstanding of their concerns and to help directly and to hear directly from them about how the law should be implemented. We built relati
Been in our investigative space working specifically with rotc students. One complaint in the k12 space, a young woman came with a complaint she had not been able to be promoted to commander in her army rotc. We investigated and found harrowing facts about the way she was being treated and the rotc lead talked to her in sexually discriminatory ways in that school. Her mom thanked us at the end of the resolution to let us know she was the first young one ever to be promoted on that camp. We are working in this space. We are trying to send a clear message. Specifically to your question about the ways we work with the armed force defense, we work hand in hand with them. The president directed us and reminded us repeatedly he expects an annual report with new progress each time Going Forward. There will be further steps. Thank you. Senator baldwin, i want to thank you for your work on the defense aspect of this. I think one of my take aways from the fine work you all did was that you have