And i will turn it over. Thank you very much mister chairman. I want to welcome you and its wonderful for me to say see a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few moments at least that you are responsible for the care and custody of over 180,000 federal inmates and one of the Justice Departments largest employers and approximately 35,500 employees as may of this year. As the chairman mentioned there are two issues i hope we can focus on. One is the First Step Act which you mentioned and the second is applaud blooms with is problems with staffing conditions within your department. Im going to put most of this in the record. I think what ill do mister chairman in the interest of time is put the statement in the record. Without objection. Senator durbin . Thank you mister chairman. Last Year Congress came together to pass what i considered one of the most important criminal Justice Reform laws and the nation. The first stepped hacked from overwhelming majority signed by President Tru
Makers in curbing heroin and opioid addiction. You can call in. Your numbers are on the screen. 2027370002 for mountain and pacific zones and special line for those impacted by opioids also 2026280205 is that number. You can catch up was on twitter and facebook its facebook. Com cspan. Host very good Tuesday Morning and well spend the first hour of our program talking about this topic and as you are calling in i want to show you a clip from the senate floor last thursday, indiana senator Joe Donnelley called more resources in combating the opioid christ is in awake of new centers for disease report found some 63,000 americans had died of a Drug Overdose in 2016. This is the time of year Many Americans reflect on the year that has passed and identify the priority in the years to come. In congress we need to do the same. More than 63,000 americans died last year. From opioid abuse. 63,000 moms and dads, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, sons and daughters who are not here with us
I will always answer your phone calls, willie. Thank you for saving the day. Always. Coming up this morning, dylan has a hopeful forecast for the end of this recordbreaking cold. Plus, after the white house was shaken this week by the new behind the scenes tell all book, President Trump held a rare q a session, this hours after he wrote on twitter that hes a, quote, very stable genius. Well talk to chuck todd about it all in just a moment. Well head to hollywood where theres a big spotlight on the Golden Globe Awards in the wake of the Sexual Harassment scandals that have rocked the entertainment world. The question now, what protests are in store tonight. The sunday sitdown with liam schrieber. His two sons are quick to remind him hes looking for the first globe . Are your kids coming . They were fighting about it in the back seat of the car. He said, us its not that big of a deal, dad never wins anyway. So hurt by that. Thats a sunday sitdown with liam schribner. Harry smith later in
Sunday morning. I will always answer your phone calls, willie. Thank you for saving the day. Always. Coming up this morning, dylan has a hopeful forecast for the end of this recordbreaking cold. Plus, after the white house was shaken this week by the new behind the scenes tell all book, President Trump held a rare q a session, this hours after he wrote on twitter that hes a, quote, very stable genius. Well talk to chuck todd about it all in just a moment. Well head to hollywood where theres a big spotlight on the Golden Globe Awards in the wake of the Sexual Harassment scandals that have rocked the entertainment world. The question now, what protests are in store tonight. The sunday sitdown with liam schrieber. His two sons are quick to remind him hes looking for the first globe . Are your kids coming . They were fighting about it in the back seat of the car. He said, us its not that big of a deal, dad never wins anyway. So hurt by that. Thats a sunday sitdown with liam schribner. Harr
Im going to provide a summary of our report to supervisor fewer on options of community banking. At the moment though, the slides are not appearing. I wonder if i might get assistance. Do you have a printed copy . I do and actually here we go. We can do it the oldfashioned way. Here we go. Thank you. My apologies for the delay. This was the report that we issued in december to supervisor fewer. It was update to 2011 report we had prepared for supervisor avalos, it covered some of the same topics, but it is different that we tried to focus on specific steps needed to be taken to establish a public bank. What weve done is provided an outline of the steps. There is obviously many more questions that would be need to be resolved to pursue that. So ill just start briefly with options for the city. There are commercial banks, thats what were using now. Theyre for Profit Institutions and theyre organized to provide a return to their private investors. Thats their primarily goal to maximize th