Just to give you some sense of it, in very large jurisdiction of the United States, the rate of recidivism for criminal offenders can be as high as 50 or more. When i. C. E. Can come in and remove offenders from a Given Community so that they cant reoffend, guess what . We take the recidivism rate to zero. So, for example, if you 100 criminal offenders, get them out, that is 50 crimes that will not happen over the next three years as a result of our enforcement efforts. Do you agree with former director morton as to the power of security working in the . Well, i dont believe we should scrap secure communities. I believe given the reality where we all with this program in this country that we need a fresh start. We have mayors and governors signing executive orders and passing laws that limit our ability to effectively carry out this program. I think the goal of the program is a very worthy one that needs to continue. So as part of the overall effort im embarked in right now i want a fr
The many issues not only hard work and efficiency ive practiced in the federal system that operates in a more efficient manner theres a lot more that goes on 55 the electronic means i dont know exactly what has stopped San Francisco superior court or the superior court of california from gaining the same speed but im dalely look at what we can implement in San Francisco to make those more efficient. As someone representing individual i made it a point i not only see the problems with the system but also see that the poor people in the community are the ones mostly effected by the budget cuts ive had to bring my legal assistant in court to act as a interpreter my client simply wanted from her ex husband all her family is undocumented and im trying to ask my client to see whether or not she can bring someone from her family and i know thats in the process of changing its a huge problem as someone who graduated law school at the 25 and to a firm at 22 i can help before i turn again to you
Today. Be it medicare, tricare, private insurance, fehpb for those federal employees and when they dropped that they would immediately go into the va system for two years. I want to ask you to stop and think about that for just a second. To a veteran on medicare, theyre going to drop their medicare, go into the va for two years . And then pay the penalty to get back into part b medicare . For an employee who has private insurance, theyre going to drop their insurance and leave their spouse uncovered because they see some advantage to being on va . Its estimated that 90 of those veteran who is are eligible but not enrolled in va have less than 50 disability rating. The threshold to where its va care comes without a copay. These are individuals who have already made a determination that the coverage theyre under is the best coverage they could have. If not, they would be enrolled in the va today. So, the fact that cbo now says with just the execution of this minor reform legislation it w
Recording artists and singer song writers who do value pandora because it is the only outlet, the only Distribution Platform available for them to find an audience that loves their music. Ms. Cash . That is what a lot of us are calling the exposure argument that we are seduced into thinking if we allow these performances without pay that we will get exposure therefore drive consumers to buy our records. That may or may not be true but the point still remains we dont have control over those copyrights and we are not paid fair compensation, we are not paid fair market rates. As i said before, theres no transparency about this. Its somewhat manipulative. And i feel that we end up subsidizing these multibillion dollar companies. They use our music as Something Like a loss leader to draw people in and then they make the money. And to confirm what mr. Williams said, the place that artists have the most control are sync licenses. Ive given my songs for free, my choice, to College Students mak
Sirius xm is well positioned to offer testimony on these copyright issues. In 2013, we paid approximately 325 million in royalties to Record Companies, publishers, song writers and artists. We have paid over 1. 8 billion in music royalties since we launched service 11 years ago. Id like you to take away four key themes from my testimony. First, parity. Radio is radio whether it is am, fm, satellite. All companies should pay for the music they use on the same ba s basis. Continuing to exempt the terrestrial Radio Companies that dominate radio listening with over 90 of the market and generate over 15 billion in revenue is bad policy. Copyright law does not distinguish between am and fm radio based on technology and it should not distinguish between am, mf, satellite, or Internet Radio based on technology. Second, todays copyright act creates an unfair digital disadvantage. Drawing any distinction based on the claim that some Radio Services are digital while others are not is based upon a