We love cspan. It is not too often that we have a true hollywood celebrity at our luncheon so we are thrilled to have Janine Turner today. You know her well from her role as Maggie Oconnell in the in the awardwinning tv series northern exposure. She received three golden globe award nomination and and any nomination for her role in the series. She also starred in the lifetime series, strong medicine. She produced and directed a short films darling her dollar daughter, julie at. She starred in numerous movies and highly rated films for television. She even coproduced and starred in a yoga video. [laughter] she has been named People Magazines 50 most beautiful people, and esquire magazines women we love. She received the women at work award from the National Commission on working women. She recently moved to new york city, but is still a proud texan and owns a ranch there. Janine has decided to add author to her resume. Her brandnew book is titled holding her head high and tells the stor
Defending progressive policies. Hello. All right, thats enough about you. Okay, i am thrilled to introduce the next panel. Before i do so, id like to take one minute to pick up on something that we touched on recently today, the tragic events in las vegas last week. And i would like to turn the mike over to our fellow, your fellow legislator and my good friend, representative chris taylor from wisconsin, who has a quick announcement in that regard. Hello, everybody. I just wanted to build on, and i talked to our nevada folks about this as well, the issue, the gun epidemic and the most recent tragedy, and share a tactic that were using in wisconsin that im happy to share with you. A lot of you may have done this already. We have obviously introduced a lot of gun safety bills, including a bump stock ban, but we also formulated a letter that were circulating to the entire Wisconsin Legislature directed at our federal representatives and president trump, calling on them to take action imme
Cuts to medicaid, stood alone a, food stamps. It seeks to cut 3. 6 trillion in federal spending over ten years. The budget director, Mick Mulvaney answer questions about the budget missed 35 minute briefing. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning. Lets make a brief statement before we start about things that are probably more important than the numbers folks like me get caught up in the numbers. What a talk about what happened in manchester england, the president this morning summed it up and for a lot of people he called these people who perpetrated this, evil losers. The president has 11 or 12, i took my son to his first concert when he was 11 or 12 and all of us with children that age this it close to home. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies and friends in the u. K. And also have the victims and their families in our hearts. As we talk about these other things that pale in comparison want to talk about the budget. I know some of you here yesterday and i know some this will
Cuts to medicaid, stood alone a, food stamps. It seeks to cut 3. 6 trillion in federal spending over ten years. The budget director, Mick Mulvaney answer questions about the budget missed 35 minute briefing. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning. Lets make a brief statement before we start about things that are probably more important than the numbers folks like me get caught up in the numbers. What a talk about what happened in manchester england, the president this morning summed it up and for a lot of people he called these people who perpetrated this, evil losers. The president has 11 or 12, i took my son to his first concert when he was 11 or 12 and all of us with children that age this it close to home. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies and friends in the u. K. And also have the victims and their families in our hearts. As we talk about these other things that pale in comparison want to talk about the budget. I know some of you here yesterday and i know some this will
Mr. Blanco the district of maryland, the district of new jersey, the departments commitment to bringing justice to these communities and these acts of violence against ms13 is obvious. In these districts, prosecutors secured the convictions of 22, 6 and 14 ms13 members respectively. Many defendants in those cases received life sentences while other received sentences of decades in prison. And just last month, prosecutors in the Eastern District of virginia secured the guilty plea of an ms13 member who admitted his participation in a murder committed as part of a gang initiation. Our work, however, does not stop at the border. The f. B. I. , h. S. I. And our organized crime and gang section lead investigations into foreignbased ms13 leaders responsible for violence here in the United States. For example, the f. B. I. s transnational antigang tag unit, located in ell is a have a dore, guatemala and honduras, supply internationally generated information to many domestic ms13 investigation