And weve got to fight for decency. And im an optimist. On the glass halffull guy on most things, and we are going to be fine. America is going to be fine and ill do my best i can promise you that. But you have to do yours, too. Because again this whole thing is a bill from a peer down. It is build from there to the top. We work for you. You dont work for us. Thats kind of my [applause] we will call her up like a lady. Hi. My name is brenda. Ive been a caregiver for nearly 10 years. My husband has younger onset alzheimers disease. Might 89 yearold mother lives with me. She is alzheimers as well. Im one of 65000 alzheimers caregivers in the state of New Hampshire. One in five medicare dollars is spent on caring for someone with alzheimers disease. The projections are by 2050 thank you. [applause] by 2050, the projections are by 2050 28 million baby boomers will have alzheimers. I know firsthand the pain of seeing these people slip away. I know firsthand the financial burden this carries
Next, the organizing director at quentin. Why are these people here . Why arent they deported or why arent they still imprisoned . I am the organizing director. We have been around the past eight years and we came out of a direct response to the contract that sheriff arpaio signed and put into a limitation into implementation. We were born out of the crisis and a few years back, a big piece of the needs of our key minute he beyond community beyond doing the protest and the legal stuff it was essentially on a casebycase basis. Our people were saying they need support. My family, my husband my daughter is in detention and we need you to help us get them out. Jose found out about our work inside the jail and called his wife and said to look for us. We have been becoming experts at understanding the legal system, helping families navigate it and fight to get their loved ones out and in the past two years, we have gotten over 150 people out of detention through this level of advocacy and po
This mr. President. Having passed an amendment that would have said tier 3 countries in the trafficking in persons report of the state department would not be allowed preferential access to the u. S. Market unless they cleaned up their record, which had a strong bipartisan support of members of the Senate Finance committee and ultimately was incorporated in the t. P. A. , the trade Promotion Authority legislation that passed the senate and was sent to the house in good faith because of concerns that maybe that would undermine the transpacific partnership. In good faith i negotiated an amendment, a provision to change in the amendment that would have said you could still negotiate with malaysia, but they had to clean up their act. If you concluded that negotiation and they were part of t. P. P. , they had to clean up their act on Human Trafficking before they got the preferential access to u. S. Markets. I thought it was a significant give on my part considering the vote of the senate,
Get to it and have a good discussion. Today we are going to look at the federal governments role in funding research. I am concerned the government system of supporting research and is inefficient and often incentivizes the wrong things which leads to bad science and wasted taxpayer dollars. Weve posted examples like this National Science Foundation Study which had money being spent on ugandan gambling habits and we do it year after year. Senator langford found investigating if kids dont like food that has been sneezed on. Are you more or less likely to eat the food in the buffet line if someone sneezes on it. And who could forget the shrimp found on the treadmill. I remember as a kid in the 1970s seeing senator william describe wastes such as this as he gave his Golden Fleece awards and here we are still with the same kind of questions 40 years later. Part of the problem is the old addage, public or perish. Researchers that publish are more likely to get funding. So how do unique proj
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