Safety administrations research on drugged driving. We take tremendous pride in protecting americans by partnering with states to enforce strong Highway Safety laws and working to make vehicles safer. Highway fatalities have declined, traffic deaths fallen by 22 in the past decade. With more than 30,000 fatalities each year we must look at new and innovative ways to save lives. Working with our partners and other organizations we made substantial process including drunk driving and seatbelt use and applied the same approaches to emerging concerns such as distracted driving. The legalization of marijuana under state laws poses new concerns and we are working to understand these risks and develop appropriate countermeasures. Available evidence indicates alcohol is the most Common Source of driver impairment. In 2012 more than 30 of traffic deaths involved a driver with blood alcohol level at or above legal limit. Several decades of Data Collection and a well established criminal justice
Recall that moynihan was complaining primarily about black families and his these is was that because of weakness in black Family Structure, blacks would not be able to seize the opportunities that were coming available to them as a result of the Civil Rights Movement. And i can tell you that what i am going to say to you is moynihans concerns now apply to hispanics and to whites, to the whole country. And here are the numbers. I got these by i recently analyzed the censuses. This is representative of the whole country. Here is what happened with family composition. First, marriage rates declined for every age group and every ethnic group every education group, with one exception thats quite fascinating, declined in 1970 and 1980 for College Educated women, but have been stable and risen a little for College Educated women. I think theres a lesson in that. For every other Group Marriage rates have declined. Now im going to tell you a fact demonstrated by social science. This fact will
To for the agency to meet statutory obligations. As dr. Sullivan fully described, i will not duplicate that discussion. I will close, though, speaking to results. Results afterall, what matters. The centers for Disease Control analyzed illnesses from all foods. Over the fiveyear period ending in 2010, cdc found that 141 of 122,000 that is 0. 001156 or 0. 12 illnesses caused by imported seafood. Most of us love baseball. Great day to be out for the nats game. But we recall going to the games with our dads. Hoipg to clutch that mitt and catch that foul ball. Unfortunately, we often came home crest fallen because we rarely ever did. The chance of catching the foul ball. 0. 001156 or 0. 12 . As an example of effectiveness of fda and while this is the hearing focus not only the fda captures program, i did want to acknowledge the leadership of senator shaheen and ayotte and others on this committee working in a bipartisan manner to eliminate a program that usdas own risk experts said will no
Present when you are talking about the president marking the vote and there were 41, not 40 soontobe 42 when we vote on this mark i understand what you say about him having signed them but that still does not take away the fact that it is a signature piece of legislation that came from this president and those that supported it and its not likely that he is going to change his mind in that regard. That is what i dont see or hear and principally what i dont see is an alternative. The question that i have is what your Republican Study Group a year ago or a year and a half ago repeal and replace and repeal and replace used to be the mantra and now the mantra is defund. I ask you, do you and the study group have a plan or would we go back to the status quo . Absolutely we do have a plan. Let me get this plug. We officially unveiled our alternative called the American Health care reform act. The Republican Study Committee has would endorse this bill to comprehensively address the problems i
Dangerous. And todays incident they believe was accidental. Train traffic was halted for about two hours. Under armor has reached the finish line of the sponsorship of the baltimore marathon. They are taking a different course from now on in spending money in the community. Under armor actually made this decision months ago and ever since then the marathon organizers have been trying to find a replacement. Either way they say the race throw downtown will go on. After ten years and millions of dollars spent to hold the title, baltimore based under armor will not be the main sponsor of the marathon. That is according to the operator of the marathon. Id be lying if i didnt tell you i was a little disappoint ted. Its been great having them. They decided to spend money in the community in a different way much like last fall giving a school a brand new state of the art athletic field. Last year they paid nearly half a Million Dollars to be the main sponsor. The race will take a financial hit