Turkey is prepping again for elections on november 1st. The Wilson Center is the host of this event this afternoon, and thatll be live at three here on cspan2. Also coming up shortly on our companion network, cspan, democratic president ial candidate senator Bernie Sanders will be speaking at liberty university, and that will be in lynchburg, virginia, the same place republican senator ted cruz announced his president ial candidacy. Senator sanders will be speaking at the con convocation, thatll start at 10 30 eastern. Youll be able to see it live on cspan, and following that we will open our phone lines to get your calls and reaction. Also coming up tonight at 8 30 weve got a hearing examining the security of the u. S. mexico border with officials from the state department and Border Control agencies. Heres a quick preview. To increase security, rule of law and justice in mexico is going to be a longterm battle. I think that we have, we can see what has happened in colombia and the ty
Chilling effect to pick up the phone and say i heard about your complaint, is there anything that i can do to help . Hopefully youll get more prosecutions and more convictions, you know, if Law Enforcement is brought in faster. Well, it seems to me that the dialogue here today has been much more a focus on helping the victim cope and deal. Thats all incredibly important and to deal with the aftermath and go forward. But i dont hear a lot of dialogue about justice. I dont hear a lot of dialogue about keeping evil perpetrators off the streets so they dont do it to another girl. I have two girls that have graduated from college, too, and i would be livid if some perpetrator who has sexually abused nume rul girls and they decided not to report and that did is still out there seeking to harm other girls and my girl ends up getting harmed. I might be pretty ticked off that guy is allowed to keep perpetrating these crimes. Right. I think one other thing needs to be said here about justice. Pe
Maybe and i have these concerns about going to the university or the college and maybe the counselor, adviser, leaning on them, maybe talking them out of prosecuting because of concern did for the alleged perpetrators career or education. Whatever the case may be, i worry about the fact that an individual who decides initially not to prosecute or not to report to the Law Enforcement, all the forensics is lost, and then several months later, several years later, they decide still within the statute of limitations i want that individual prosecuted so theyre not going to do that to anybody else and then the forensics is not there because it was never reported to Law Enforcement and the people that ended up dealing with it didnt have the capability to even put a case together in the first place. One other critical aspect of mandatory reporting is that theres no way to build up more trust with police than to work with them. You know, we cant we cant fix the problem if theres a problem in th
Tong forward its important get the laws changed so we do not have a report that just sits on the shelf is we cannot afford to have this kind of tragedy. Be of our work will important. I turn back and thank the chair. Let me close by thanking the officers. You are true heroes to me and this committee. Thank you for my Watertown Police patch. I will wear this very pro next, the house debates the federal budget. Then this weeks Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Followed by a house hearing on the oneyear anniversary of the bombings. Athon the next on washington journal, a look at the differences between the budgets released by House Democrats and Budget Committee chairman paul ryan. Our guest is congressman john of kentucky, a member of the Budget Committee. Representative aaron schock of illinois, a member of of the ways and Means Committee, will theere to talk about prospects for tax reform in congress. Washington journal is live starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern,
And it should not be the facts of 2014. It should not be the way things are. You you know, theres been a lot of discussion around the opportunities for women and obviously weve grown you cant see 20 women in the United States senate and not think that were making some progress. But we have to think not only about those women in professional occupations but those women who are our school cooks and our janitors, like my mother, those women who are working every day at the diner to put food on on the table to to put food on their familys table and food on the table of their patrons. And so when were talking about this i also talk about the need for an increase in minimum wage, which i know is is a topic for further discussion on the floor. But i like to remind my fellow senators that the current minimum wage which as we all know overrepresented by women the number of people earning minimum wage, overrepresented by women is less than 9 is less than 9 of a congressional salary. And we have