buying treasury bills from the u.s. government and here i am sitting here what if there s a spring court case deciding that these aren t valid, these aren t valid legal instruments oblig e obligating the u.s. government to pay me. i m going to be stressed. which means i may not purchase them. if i do purchase them, i m going to ask for a big premium. there are no magic bullets here. there s one simple way of doing it and that is congress going ahead and voting. the fact that right now there are votes, i believe, to go ahead and take this drama off the table should at least be tested. speaker boehner keeps on saying he doesn t have the votes for it. what i ve said is, put it on the floor, see what happens. at minimum, let every member of congress be on record.
the purpose of the bill is that if you are over 18 and witness sexual assault, you are oblig e obligated to report it to the police or child protection services. if you don t, you re liable. there are only 18 states across the country that require that all citizens, if they were to see sex abuse, they are required to report it. that s only 18 states. this federal law would make it necessary and required across all 50 states is what you re saying? that s exactly the point. so much needs to be done, and it s a heartbreak of what you said a minute ago about the young man who is being bullied in his school. he we really need to have a amount of public education as well. this bill is a first step. it s a small step. we re introducing it in a bipartisan fashion, and it s my hope that we can, you know, really address this issue. but it s going to take a long-term strategy. why not leave it to the st e stat states?