Obviously the court in d. C. Issued an injunction, which i know that youre complying with. But the problem is the bonds have been set so high. If youre from Central America being held in prison for six, seven, eight months with your children, you dont have 10,000 to get out. Are we taking a look at alternatives to detention for people whose cases, whose credible fear findings have already been made . We certainly are looking at alternatives for detention, as you well may know. We have quite a few families on the att program. Its essentially release but with some increased supervision. And we have enjoyed some success with the program. I will say every decision that our officers make, and they use their best judgment, theyre trained. Theyre seasoned. To try to determine what the appropriate bond is once they say, okay, you should be released. But we need some well, i would like to follow up with you. Were hearing something quite different and you know, well get to the bottom of it off c
Were just taking away a penalty. And id add ive done high part i have four kids. But let me add this, if a business entity were to invest in capital, or were to invest in machines, in expansion they receive tax benefit for doing so. But if an individual family decides to make an investment in people, in our future and human beings, all were asking is that the tax code recognize that as well as an investment in the future. In individuals that will be the corner stone of americas future. That doesnt mean that look, were not approaching this with a thought process someone will sit down with their accountant and said what you really need to do is have two more kids. But its a reality that izraising children is expensive. We just want our tax code to recognize that and create parity for families that decided to take on the important work of raising americas future. We have time for one more question. This gentleman and then the senators have to go. You mentioned conservatives with flathter
Building. The committee was set to meet beginning now 2 15 eastern, but its pushed back a half hour, to 2 45. Taking up legislation that will require congressional review of the nuclear deal with iran. This is White House Press secretary josh ernest said president obama wouldnt necessarily reject the bill proposed by bob corker which would require greater congressional review of a potential deal to curb Irans Nuclear program. The National Journal writes that corker and the new member of maryland reached a compromise monday night to alter parts of the bill in ways that ernest said the administration would consider accepting. The White House Briefing is online at cspan. Org. Were also covering the la times festival of books. Heres a preview. In los angeles is the annual Los Angeles Times festival of books. And book tv will be live, both april 18th and 19th from the university of Southern California campus. Nick is the deputy publisher of the la times. When and how did the la times start
Effective tool for changing policy. There is a bit of him talking about the book. I have then to the house of people who were destroyed by People Like Us on twitter. People who have not left their homes in a year and a half. I have been to the homes of both these chambers and the shamed to make sense of whats become of us. Things started well. With social media, the silence has a voice and it was an eloquent voice. You could chat with likeminded strangers. Then when the powerful transgressed, we realized we could do something about it. If some he wrote a racist column, we could hurt them with a social media shaming. It felt like the democratization of justice. Host we want to know what you think about the issue of public shaming. Here are the phone numbers in case you would like to participate. You can go ahead and dialin. Were going to show you and obviously you can participate the a social media as well if you would like to send a tweet about the use of social media in public shaming
I never forgot that. It was terrific to see him yesterday. We are happy to be here in iowa. We are going to come back to iowa. Were going to go over the whole state, and were going to come back as many times as we can. Youll be seeing more of us. I would like to take a few minutes tonight to talk to you about three things that i care deeply about. What are the challenges that are facing us as a nation . Where do i see the need for us to really focus in the next several years . The first is restoring fairness, economic fairness. Social justice in our system. I talked about this when i ran for the senate. It was the principal issue i was talking about when i ran for the senate. We have had an economic recovery since the Great Recession that has only helped a partial element in our society. We have to be honest about that. Particularly as democrats we have to be honest about that. If you go to april 2009, and look at the recovery. If you own stocks and capital assets, youre probably doing