Rightfully incarcerated, its as though they are no longer citizens. What the president of the United States said is they are citizens too. He was talking about people in prison without question people who are out of prison and served the time for which were sentenced, but they are not full citizens without the right to vote. Therefore, this also has to be regarded as a key democracy issue for this country that we have to confront. Can i just add quickly on that . They are actually ending laws is one area there is some new bipartisan support that is very interesting. Criminal justice issues are rising even as an issue within the republican primary. You now have very conservative people who are talking about the need to end or at least curb mass incarceration. There have been efforts in the senate where rand paul has talked about the need, not necessarily to end felony disenfranchisement but to e relax the laws. And obviously i think there continue to be movement with the country focused
An alternate they are foye pair with their cessation of opiates. I would like you to respond to something that weve heard the secretary say and read about in the press that he has 28,000 positions to fill in the vha. Its something it was reiterated in the hearing here. Then when the Ranking Member and i and some other members of congress in the senate were in your command and control center on the eighth floor a few weeks back, weve heard that number was not 28,000, that it was 50,000 positions to be filled at the vha. Could you confirm that number and could you tell me how youre prioritizing those hires . And obviously im getting to if we have a crisis in Mental Health and were treating all hires the same, we have a problem. If youre prioritizing Mental Health, heres a chance to tell this committee and the public at large. So i did not hear the number 50,000. Ill have to check on that and get back to you drekly. I think that would probably be the easiest way to say that. With 300,000
I didnt come to represent me. I didnt camera present diane french coal. Representing the people on the street right now. Its the only heat we have in december. And the hurricane happened in august. Omebody needs to hear why were less than 500,000 people spread over 50 states . Thats the question my neighbors want to know. And again, it was 10 years ago that Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast Region will stop one Million People were displaced and about 10,000 people died. We will show you scenes from new orleans after the we dont know how it will end. It is also possible that five years down the road we will be back in afghanistan. It is much worse than the taliban. The taliban is deeply entrenched and harley defeated. If and hardly defeated. If we end up in five years in a new civil war with new save havens for the taliban and isis, then i would say does not worth the price. Sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern and pacific on cspan skew and dave. Cspans q and day. Those participating i
Principals and superintendents to say that you have kids in the region qualifying yet only 40 kids are taking it. N you look at your taxes when i had to subsidize my classrooms, it made me very angry. Andy, what is your take on these results . Well, Big Questions about what the future of state and federal policy are going to look like. It looks like the nation is rebelling 35, maybe 40 years of the drift of policy on this. What i mean is there is a sense that americas local system of schools werent getting the job done in the way we need them to. Say, the late 1970s, early 1980s, scores on the sats and so forth. There has been this impulse to centralize more and more. We have the accountability movements of the 1980s and 1990s. The apotheosis of accountability. Top,we had race to the where we get more and more power in the State Government and at the federal government. Going through these results, it is remarkable i use the term technocrat, the idea that a central administrator with T
A seat. Hello, everybody. Where you at . [cheers] it is good toa be back in the big easy. The weather in august all the time, right . In new as i land orleans, the first thing i do is get hungry. The familyhere with a few years ago, i had a shrimp at parkway bakery and tavern. I still remember it. That is how good it was. One day after i leave office, aybe i will finally hear rebirth of the maple leaf on tuesday night. Ill get a chance to see the mardi gras and someone will tell me what carnival right now, i just go to meetings. For theo thank michelle introduction, and more importantly for the great work she is doing. What she represents in terms of the city bouncing back. I want to acknowledge a great friend and somebody who has been working tirelessly on behalf of the city. And hes following a family legacy of service. Your mayor mitch landrieu. Proud of him. His beautiful wife. Senator bill cassidy is here. There he is. Cedric richmond congressman cedric richmond. Theres the covers