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Lenders. I think thats something that id like to talk a little bit about here today because members of our military have to resort to financing from these predatory lenders all too often. We know military Service Members are three times more likely than civilians to use predatory payday loans that charge exorbitant rates. Thats three times the civilians use. The military families carry 10,000 or more in Credit Card Debt compared to 16 for civilian frames. 10 of military families carry more than 20,000 in debt compared to just 7 of the civilian families, and more than half of military Service Members are not saving for the future and have trouble paying their monthly bills. Thats why this morning, i reintroduced my military savings act which is legislation i previously introduced in the house of representatives, and the bill would promote Savings Rates among military Service Members and decrease their need to turn to predatory payday lenders in times of financial crisis. The bill establ
Chris Christina Hoff sommers christy talked about the bridge scandal. Governor christy talks about Hurricane Sandy Recovery Efforts in the 50minute speech. [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Happy new year. Governor, mr. Speaker, mr. President , legislators, friends, fellow New Jerseyans the last week has certainly tested this administration. Mistakes were clearly made. And as a result, we let down the people we are entrusted to serve. I know our citizens deserve better. Much better. I am the governor and i am ultimately responsible for all that happens on my watch both good and bad. Without a doubt we will cooperate with all appropriate inquiries to ensure this breach of trust does not happen again. But i also want to assure the people of new jersey today that what has occurred does not define us or our state. This administration and this legislature will not allow the work that need
Before this was a political issue, that established by the state, establishes use consistently throughout the statute a particular way, when state is defined in the statute, a definition that they didnt mention, states expressly defined in the statute to include d. C. , not include the federal government, territories that are defined as equivalent for certain purposes, federal government never is, when people outside the political context engaged the statute, what was there unpoliticized read of the statute . Federal agencies havent been very forth coming with everything, but, you know, there certainly are efforts to try and look at what did neutral folks, when they read the statute, think it meant, because obviously now everyone who reads the statute has a sense of what the possible implications are. Crs, for example, did an early read where they said basically go by plain text. Pretty strong argument that this is limited. Acknowledge that you could also find it ambiguous. Irs, again,
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