I want to talk about an area that i talk to you once before about Community Banks they were not the speculators that brought about the financial collapse then theyre trying to figure out a way to remain relevant. During the tarp time the preferred stock of Community Banks or now held by treasury considerations of treasury to make it easier to be able to recoup theyre preferred stock. We share the view that Community Banks way a Critical Role in local economies and in creating an engine for Small Business growth and local economic activity. We have in the incb t. A. R. P. Program to work with Community Banks. Appreciated. I was interested in your exchange in regards to the us harmonize with the Unit International community and the fact that we have high Corporate Tax rates and i i also was interested in the exchange on simplification where you are trying sen. Wyden wants to get the code much more simplified command i agree. I would put in the plug that you take a a look at the progressi
And girls that emphasizes how pressing and pervasive this problem is on our campuses. I am attending an initiative in connecticut to try to raise awareness about it and i would like your commitment that you will work with me and others on this committee on this issue. I look forward to working with you on that important issue in the statistics are alarming. 20 of all young women are either assaulted or an attempt of an Sexual Assault. Usually this happens and there freshmen are early part of their sophomore years. We have used those statistics in the work of the task force of the president has put together to deal with that issue and we look forward to working with you and other members of congress and trying to come up with meaningful ways that we can deal with an issue that has too often been if not ignored not given the attention it deserves. Just so no one thinks that this issue nearly involves rhetoric. There is a legal basis for legal action and federal title ix in protecting wom
Let me just say on the issue of trafficking i welcome your comments on that score. I have proposed a resolution, bipartisan resolution with my colleague rob portman who is not a member of this committee basically saying that there should be more vigorous enforcement of these laws particularly around the time of the super bowl because the trafficking on web sites like back page. Com and tends to increase during this time so i welcome your comments. And let me just add briefly, to take senator leahys comments, i want to thank you and the department of justice for really over these past years viewing these legal issues on their merits, on their legal merits putting politics aside. The Justice Department went through a dark area in my view under the Previous Administration when politics far too often became part of the analysis and i want to thank the career, Justice Department employees who worked so hard and long under you to make sure that the rule of law is berserk. Let me turn to a pa
Budget deliberations, looking at the balance between the active and reserve component. I would guess there would be a difference in proportionality, but i dont want to get into details about how one would come down opposed to the other. The other thing you mentioned was contractors. We share your belief. We have got to make sure that we have our contractors. We have a fight on our hands just getting their salaries. We thought maybe they should be paid more than the Vice President , but everyone has pushed back on that. Paid more thane the Vice President , but everyone has pushed back on that. Reduction that0 we have offered up to do, the largest proportion of that is contractors. They are costly. Most of them are military. X military. Doing the same jobs. The guard is the most efficient way to go in this country to have expertise and keep the expertise ready at all times. I dont see the pentagon embracing that. Even though we have elevated that up to the full jeep joints chief joints p
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