Transferring them to federal super max institutions in the United States. This is 40 minutes. Murmuring] good afternoon. Welcome to the heritage foundation. We welcome those who join us on our website on all of these occasions. Wonderful friends inhouse to make a courtesy check that your cell phones have been muted. Appreciated by those recording and to those giving remarks. We will post this on the heritage homepage for your future reference and you are welcome at any time to send questions and comments to our email. Speaker at heritage. Org. Is a senioray fellow of our National Security institutem and the for national and foreign policy. He specializes in National Security legal issues, homeland security, crime control, and drug policy. Prior to joining heritage, he served as Deputy Assistant for Detainee Affairs under both secretary rumsfeld and secretary gates. State,served as a local, federal, and military prosecutor. Recently, he served as the deputy chief trial judge for the mar
Program on the heritage homepage for your future reference and internet viewers are welcome at any time to send questions or comments to our email speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our guest is Kelly Simpson who serves as legal fellow manager for National Security law program in the catherine and shelby column for foreign policy. Specializes in National Security legal issues, home of security, crime control and drug policy. Prior to joining heritage in 2007 mr. Stinson served as Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for Detainee Affairs under secretaries rumsfeld and gates. He has served as a local state, federal and military prosecutor, military defense counsel and recently as the deputy chief trial judge for the Navy Marine Corps trial judiciary. He is currently the Commanding Officer of the neighbor reserve Navy Marine Corps appellate review activity, Appellate Government division. Please join me in welcoming coli stenson. [applause] thank you very much john and welcome to the heritage
And so individuals have told me as spouses, that they have gone out, sought fulltime employment and again passed over that salary to the respite person. Thats the sort of painful pressure under which individuals and couples, families are living. Many have chosen to keep their loved ones at home. There are issues of safety, economic duress, and certainly our system has to respond to that. So the sooner we set our sights on a cure, on funding thats adequate and effective for reserge purposes and for developing the responsiveness of the medical teams out there, via perhaps pharmaceutical assistance and development there, the better our Economic Situation will be in regard to these struggles system of heres a chance for congress to respond in very magnanimous terms that will allow us to state cumulatively that we get it. That were there in an order of compassion, that we understand its about a dignity factor, its about quality of life, its about providing hope to situations that may be ren
Then the temperatures plummet, windchills below zero. Were not just talking a few degrees below zero. Were talking extremely cold air. Who gets what and when coming up in a few minutes. We just cant get used to this even though weve been going through it all winter pap lot of you today job number one was of course clearing yourself out of the snow especially those down south that got pretty hard with some of those totals. Our Northern Virginia l Bureau Reporter david culvert went south down to fredericksburg to see how yall are doing down there. David . Reporter hey, there, wendy. Normally in the aftermath of snow we head west because thats generally where it is here in Northern Virginia. But following storm team 4s forecast when we came down here to fredericksburg where they got about 7 inches among the high nest our region when it comes to snow counts. Folks here the focus was cleaning up all that snow and ultimately get back to work. A torpedo yus but necessary part of this winter w
It might be more cities and five pillars. We will then transmit a report to the president , the congress, and everyone else that will listen with their principles and recommendations. Some have accused me of being an optimist. I cannot help myself. I am irish for the most part. Some people think well [laughter] so i say it is time to start viewing this issue as an opportunity, not only as a challenge. If we are smart, we can set a path that will ensure Adequate Funding for years to come. We can create jobs and we really need them. We can spur Economic Growth the country needs. We can promote Cooperation Among all levels of government and private sector. We can ensure that money is spent wisely on projects with the greatest national and if it. And we can build trust and confidence in the American People and make clear all of the benefits this investment will bring. The chamber is committed. My colleagues supporting this effort are committed, and we look forward to working with you to ge