Benefit pension, and now they are seeing the possibility that that could result in up to a 90 cut in their benefits. Over the past several years weve been working on this, ive been involved with it. Ive been working on the finance committee which is the committee here in the senate that has responsibility for this issue. In 2018, going back two years ago now, iowas participating in hearings as a member of the joint committee on solvency of multiemployer Pension Plans. It was a oneyear committee. House and senate, republican and democrat. Woe were we were supposed to get to a solution for this problem before it gets worse. We spent countless hours trying to do that. I spent countless hours in meetings, with beneficiaries, retirees, spouses. Ohio is one of the states thats hardest hit. I have heard their stories about how years of mismanaged Pension Plans have put them on the hook for unthinkable cuts into pensions that they just assumed were going to be there. Let me spell out how preca
Unprecedented physical, financial, and social turbulenc turbulence. From the pandemic to the economic challenges that came on its heels to the widespread protest against racial injustice. The needs of our country bushould have transcended politics. But unfortunately, that does not seen the caseu today. You know, we have been on a pretty good run. Republicans and democrats had put aside our differences to have bold and transformative legislation to support the nations fighting and discovered 19 as well aslo ease the ensuing financial fallout. And i had hoped that trend would continue as we Work Together to address the injustices that still persist in our society. Beginning with Police Reforms. As we all know by now, thanks to our friend, senator tim scott and others who worked rewith him, we introduce the just ticked act of real and lasting reform so can begin to restore the broken trust between minority communities and our Law Enforcement agencies. Thisth package of bills address some
Implemented prethey talked about the history of Police Brutality toward black and other minority communities. This runs one hour. This series called rethinking policing, activism and reform has examined efforts to reform the police as well as preparing the next generation for activism and healing, i invite you to explore these inspiring sessions on our website. But today our panel of legal experts will focus on police evolution, what it means, what it does not mean and what Public Safety can look like without policing as we know it today. Our aim with this series is to educate and empower those in pursuit of meaningful change. Both in the wake of George Floyds death in the midst of a larger legacy of Racial Injustice in this country. I want to thank you all again for joining and i want to thank Chris Henning for her leadership organizing the series. Let me introduce the moderators for todays roundtable. Professor kristi lopez, she joined our faculty and generate 2017 right after comple
The encouragement youve no doubt provided in helping him to get to this day. Our goal in conducting the hearing is to enable the committee to have a thoughtful consideration of the calls to be the next Inspector General of the cia. He is provided and written responses and this morning members will be able to ask any additional questions and hear the answer directly from the nominee. He spent 23 years as a federal prosecutor in the department of justice and assistant u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of louisiana. The width of the National Security agency since 2011 hes been in a privat private practiw orleans where he has done dozens of trials that the federal and state level and litigated at the appellate level. In addition spent 20 years as an uncompensated adjunct professor at the Tulane Law School giving back to his alma mater in. The office responsible for independent oversight if confirmed he will conduct audit inspections and reviews of the programs and operations and play
The u. K. Government comes under fire from the opposition for its response to the pandemic during a virtual session of parliament. As many of us stayed home environments getting a bit of a break just in time for the 50th Birthday Well tell you why the fight for the plan is as important as ever this year. The us has called for iran to be held accountable after teheran successfully launched its 1st military satellite irans revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space washington has accused iran in the past of using its Space Program as a cover for Missile Development from teheran so the reports. On wednesday morning the world a will to news of a secret operation carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. The newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives irans m