Two years weve also launched a program to integrate Employment Services with treatment, so that we can help those with drug addiction not only get clean but get back to work. I am proud that together we enacted an overdose protection law to provide Legal Protection to people and especially to Health Care Professionals who are trying to help. I am proud that we are trying to help nonviolent offenders get access to college through the njstep program. And today, i would like to announce our next steps in helping those battling the disease of drug addiction by improving the way we deliver these services. Right now there are numerous federal, state, and county government programs, providers and nonprofit partners, who fund and deliver some form of adult addiction services. How to access those services can be difficult and overwhelming when confronted with the unintended bureaucracy of options. Contacting multiple agencies and trying to identify the right treatment is challenging enough, but
Decreasing Small Business burdens act. This bill is about jobs and it is about Economic Growth. And it is about jobs on main street. Make no mistake about it. Essentially the same legislative package passed the house last fall by a bipartisan vote of 320102. If i may, i want to talk about title 8 of this legislation, which passed the house last april by voice vote and it contains language from a bill i introduced in the last congress h. R. 4167, the restoring proven financing for american employers act. I worked closely with my colleagues across the aisle to craft sound commonsense language to clarify the volcker rule regarding the treatment of collateralized loan obligations. Lets talk about the volcker rule and what it does. As currently structured this rule will substantially disrupt the market from c. L. O. s, a vital source of capital for companies that cannot access the Corporate Bond market. There ares two negative impacts of this rule. It will have a serious negative impact on
There will be a number of questions. Severe drought, expanding Domestic Energy production and aging Water Infrastructure have introduced significant challenges for the state. They have also demonstrated the close connection between energy and water resources. Population growth strains Water Infrastructure. Developing state policies that address these challenges and collaboration with the federal government can help maximize the efficient use of resources and better prepare states for energy and water challenges. Today possible work session will examine how states are responding to energy and water challenges while identifying opportunities for greater collaboration between the state and federal government on these issues. The session will help show why state perspectives are vital for successful regulatory action. Governor malloy, governor malloy and i hope that it will introduce these discussions into the conversation. The fact is states are not waiting for the federal government to d
Including the first africanamerican republican and the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of members of congress using congressional chronicle on cspan. Org. The page has lots of useful information, including voting results. New congress, best access on cspan cspan2, cspan radio and cspan. Org. I really weekend, the Democratic National committee released an interim review of the partys losses in the Midterm Elections. It showed the democrats lack a single election strategy. They need to focus on local elections. Kentucky governor steve bashiear talked about some of the points during the winter meeting. This is about an hour and a half. I hereby call the 2015 winter meeting of the Democratic National committee back into session from recess. The colors will be presented by the Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School color guard. Please rise for the presentation of the colors. Join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United State
Hypothetical situations make worse law. In this case, i would just urge members of this committee not to make a decision based upon a hypothetical threat. Thats first. Second of all, the very fact that the Music Publishers were talking about are big enough to make a threat that scares ascap and b. M. I. Shoumd raise a lot of eyebrows on this committee and the department of justice. Those withdrawals as has been mentioned here the possibility of those withdrawals are best put in the light of what happened, if you take a look at what happened, when they threatened them. They engaged immediately in inclusive and competitive activity. If you want to see what will happen, that gives you a pretty good idea what should happen. That, i think, should really raise some eyebrows and raise a question whether or not they ought to have their own Consent Decrees, frankly. Okay. Do you want to respond at all, mr. Harrison . I agree with mr. Donald son. The concern is not partial withdrawals in theory