From the republican standpoint, if you go over the cliff and the tax rates go back up, you instantly thought and the tax base. It also means more taxpayers are paying. Instead of having 50 of taxpayers having no liability because their income is too low and because of deductions, you have a higher percentage that are pain and a broader base. You have more people to start sweating out more money from. Once you do these spending cuts, then you decide from the standpoint of, we have already cut all this money, what do we absolutely need to add that in. In some ways, the reset would be shocking for members of congress to go through it. Host larry, you are on the line. Caller mine is a simple solution. We cannot keep going with the unlimited budget spending. My thought is one item, 1 vote. Why dont we change what people want to hear and just vote on it . That is as transparent as it gets. Guest i do not think it will work because the size of the government is so big and the number of line i
More stringent requirements regarding when a player with concussion can return to the game need to be implemented. These are my thoughts for your consideration. Thank you for your attention and valuable time. Thank you for your valuable time. You are recognized for five minutes. Thank you. The opportunity to speak on behalf of the safety of our children in this country. I am a pediatric neuropsychologist at Childrens National Health System in washington, d. C. , and the director of the Concussion Program. I would like to take my time to focus my comments on the importance of Public Health education for youth concussion using my expertise as a clinician and researcher. I have worked for the last decade with the cdc on their heads up Concussion Program materials. Ianll know, and i think said it perfectly, the sports and recreation provide important developmental opportunities to enrich the lives of our youth. They teach life lessons. We have to balance those incredible benefits with care
They act as a control over the course of the season. We are finding what occurs across the season in normal players with no history of concussion, their speed of processing does change over the four or five months of training and the season. With the players who experience concussion, we see a slowdown of about 200 milliseconds. That is four times faster than the slowdown in multiple sclerosis, for contrast. Clearly, the brain has changed the way it is processing. We are moving to start intervention programs with the players identified. There is some data with alzheimers that suggest working memory tasks, even one week, can show continual gain and improvements. We are trying to see some of that occurring. Thank you. Dr. Gay, in regard to concussions, many times it is not a direct blow. The head is going back and forth and the brain is sloshing around. You mentioned going back to 1970s type equipment. Describe what you mean by 1970s equipment and how it may reduce concussions. The neck
Of ways that it can have an impact, both on the hiring and employee side, as well as on the owner side. On the hiring side, setting standards for hiring contracts with vendors can set a high bar for companies that are receiving the Public Airways to live up to those sorts of standards on the structure that can impact the ownership side. Perverting competition. He surely set off structures that allow for small women and minor minor owned businesses to create compete in the auctions. You may not have all the ideas but we are interested in finding out what other ideas can be brought forward and celebrate the chamber recently reinstating the Advisory Committee on diversity and digital empowerment. Those are the sorts of things we love to see at the fcc where stakeholders can come together and come up with other tactics to promote diversity. Thank you chairman, my time is up. , we hear from senator blackburn. Thank you mr. Chairman. I want to thank our witnesses for being here to talk about
Examine ways to improve safety conditions for youth would that that workon farms around americ. Today we are meeting to examine workplace detections for child farmworkers. Todays hearing represents the third in the series for spotlight workers that are all too often overlooked, neglected and exploited. The hearings have been invented to lift workers up and champion their causes. Each day hundreds of thousands many of whom come from low income migrant families risk their health and wellbeing while working on farms across the country. Child farmworkers should be able to rely on the basic workplace protections that are standard. Unfortunately, the nations labor law has left the child workers behind. While the fair standard laborers fact provides protections in the workforce, children working in the Agricultural Industry are either excluded from many of these protections were provided Legal Protections for example unlike other industries, child farmworkers can be assigned hazardous jobs fr