Bipartisan inhofemikulski amendment to the National Defense authorization act. What does our amendment do . It stops the privatization of commissaries which are an earned, earned benefit for our military and their families. Every year when the Senate Debates this bill, we talk about how we love our troops and how we always want to support our military families, but if we really love our troops, we need to make sure that our troops have the support that they need. One of the earned benefits that does that is the commissaries, and if we love our troops, why would we want to proceed in the direction that we are . Our troops dont view commissaries as a subsidy. They view it as do i as an earned benefit. Im fighting here to preserve this piece of the earned benefit compensation package. Now, what are the commissaries . Since 1826, military families have been able to shop at a network of stores that provide modestly priced groceries. The commissary system is simple. If youre active duty in y
So. I think youll find a lot of support among the committee for clearer cyanide, but also to resources needed to address these issues and not without a lot of conversations this morning about prevention and the importance of educating students about healthy relationship, healthy encounters and im glad we are talking about this before they get to college. There were some conversations about the teach safe relationship fact that safe relationship fact that theres a version and have been a cosponsor of other members of the committee. I invite the other Committee Members and colleagues to look at that enjoy nonbecause if we are preventing that is the best approach. We know we can take stronger steps not only in prevention. We want to make sure survivors of Sexual Assault have access to Research Services and privacy on an offcampus is and i want to emphasize we need to have policies encourage, not discourage survivors from reporting and tickling counseling. That is something we see in more
Be responsibility would that be . Also federal . Local Law Enforcement is already using some devices and other folks are using it. Who controls the thats probably the biggest concern of privacy is somebody within 500 feet over peoples homes, property, surveillance capability of these drones. Mr. Whitaker by statute, even at those altitudes its federal air space. Mr. Mica still our responsibility, so well wait to see the development of that and specifics on that rule. I predict there will be, sometimes we dont move until theres an incident, there will be an incident. There will be a crash, there will be probably fatalities. Because you have so many of these things flying. I hope it doesnt take down a big commercial aircraft. I hope it doesnt have a lot of fatalities. But i think its inevitable. How many thousands of these drones are now flying . Ive heard different figures from several thousand to 20,000 flying. Mr. Whitaker i dont know the exact figures. Perhaps mr. Wynne does. I think
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Gentleman. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im josh with the Planning Department staff i will start off todays presentation by giving you the expressway on gary how it came to be and some ann nations and ill be followed by two more colleagues from the Transportation Authority will talk about the explorations into the future of the filing more area. So at one time before the construction cut gary was merely a seam in the africanamerican and japaneseamerican and jewish and filipino and other communications and had it span the two areas it was lines with businesses that fronted on it and it was an active corridor. Not only the Jazz Entertainment center but it spanned gary. From this photo in 1958 just before the expressway gary was profiler about 60 feet wide north of Market Street and it was like an your own area. Here another photo before the expressway project was built. Before the post world war ii area we wanted to remake the city in the western edition it was target number one. The firs