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Right now were hearing from the State Attorney General and the police commissioner. We really cannot forget in all of this the eight alleges victims, boys as young as 7 or 8 years old. We do have to warn you that the details reveiled revealed by the grand jury are report and hard to stomach. Many News Articles and Opinion Pieces have already been written about this and many of you are very familiar with the allegations contained in the presentment, as well as the defendants that have been charged and the institutions and organizations that have been mentioned in this case. I also understand that many of you have questions concerning the allegations. The criminal charges an other issues related to the case. Commissioner noonan and i will attempt to address many of those as many of those questions as possible, but i need to qualify that statement by making it clear that this is an Ongoing Investigation and its also a grand jury investigation, which means that there are going to be some d
And let us know what you think of the programs youre watching. Calls youre watching. Call set to zero to 663400 or email us at comments at cspan. Org. Join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. The House Judiciary Committee Overcriminalization Task force recently debated whether to reform the prosecution and sentencing of criminals and specifically focused on whether or not to eliminate or reduce mandatory minimum sentences in certain cases. Witnesses included former assistant u. S. Attorney eric evenson and Bryan Stevenson with the equal justice initiative. This is just under two hours. The over concession task hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the task force at anytime. We will welcome our Witnesses Today. Mr. William otis is an adjunct professor at georgetown law. He has held a number of positions in the federal government, chief of the appellate division, u. S. Attorneys office for the Eastern D
I think you pretty much took my entire speech when he mentioned the word cbo. Unfortunately, i think it is, i think this is something both sides of the aisle, this is something bipartisan we kind of struggled with right now is we are kind of living in an arrow cliff. It is one cliff after the other after the other. The debt ceiling or the sequester or the sgr cliff. Does congressional staffers, im sure debbie can attest to, we are constantly living in his temporary environment because we have to. That is unfortunate your we would all like to take some time and do a deep dive into deep policy thinking and try to think of transformational ideas that can transform everything, but when we kind of walking to work reality hits us. We have a job to do. We have to take of the thing that is the most pressing on the front end, and, unfortunately, thats kind of the environment we are living in. And it was a very interesting panel, especially the last one, where i was hearing, theres Nothing Bette
With the republicans, which is a disappointment to me. Theyve talked some happy talk about doing revenues, but we only have a couple weeks to get something done. So we have to get away from the happy talk and Start Talking about specific things. As we head into the fiscal cliff negotiations, my advice to the president would be seems like our friends on the other side are having some difficulty turning off the campaign. We need to sit down and work this matter out. Behind closed doors. Even with the fiscal cliff looming over the markets, our own jeff cox with cnbc. Com says theres a growing bit of optimism about the outlook for next year. Take a look at some of the predictions from some of the streets biggest names regarding the s p 500 for next year. Its quite a chapg for Morgan Stanley, by the way, whose 2012 forecast was for the s p to close at 1167 on december 31 of this year. Wow. Theyre expecting a mega rally next year. He hates having to come up with a number for next year, but h