A lesson in school. That will also help the process move faster. Ok. Thank you. Ok. Thank you. I think we have worked extensively with community groups, all of that, but one of the things on the other side of this is, from all the voter Interest Groups, political parties, media outlets, blogosphere bloggers now before we get to the next round of elections, tried to work out something so we can get the Accurate Information out to your voters. That is the goal of the Election Officials, get them all the information they need. One of the most significant problems was unusual reports that were inaccurate that had this Ripple Effect throughout the county that caused huge problems throughout the election. I urge everyone to start working those relationships out now. Get out the information. We have less and less and less information for voters, for media, for everyone. Build this relationship now. Ok. I want to take all little personal liberty here. I hope when i get back to work i will not be in trouble keeping but i want to talk about how we treat Senior Citizens. I often think we are not very comfortable. I know we have occurred stop ballot voting. Curb ballot voting. We have Senior Citizens coming into the precinct. Walking with canes, holding the hands of their children and greatgrandchildren. They wanted to participate. Some of the captains would get them out of line, bring them to the front of the line. Some people complained about that. What i am saying, my personal point on this is these people were the people that thoughts that fought so i could walk into a precinct and vote. We are telling them they have no place to sit and wait. We could have a senior voting sections. May be a section where our seniors could go and now we want to address all populations, but im talking about our Senior Citizens, because it is upon their shoulders that we stand. Thank you, lorena. There are several things i would like to see. I think need a larger longer training time for our chief justices who supervised the polling places on election day. Number two, i think we need to account for those with disabilities. Third, to the voter, i think the voter needs to be prepared. One of the things we found out is there were long lines at the voting no. We had i think it was eight ballot issues. The Ballot Voters stood up their reading that. Look, read those, be familiar with that before you get to the boating unit. That will cut down on our time. Ok. Mary . I think my comments will be similar to others that have been mentioned. Perhaps better Voter Education about the tools that are out there to help them know where they need to vote, more staffing at the polling places where a captain or assistant captain could actually go through the front lines, the czech and lines to interface with the voters, say has anyone checkin lines to interface with the voters, say has anyone got any questions . I can check for you. That has become a real issue with all of the precincts. So come up Voter Education might be part of it, and i think early voting has law lot of voters into thinking i can vote anywhere. And the only races they care about will be counted and in some cases the lower level races, they may be upset about. But it is like a shrug it for them and they say, oh, well. I think some of the lower races, some of the ballot initiatives, the more localized issues there might be a real problem in the end. So. Thank you. I have a few things that have been touched on by almost everybody here. Just to the voters, about being prepared. I know in arlington county, you can go on the web site. It tells you exactly where to go, exactly what is going to be on your ballot. If we can get that information out there, we can speed up the process. If they show at the precincts and are prepared, we will have a quicker time. And for poll workers, it keeps coming back. And arlington county, the poll workers to have been at a few elections knew how to handle these situations and shared that information with new poll workers. I would encourage the new poll workers to keep coming back year after year. Ok. Thank you so much. Alice . Let me thank everyone. These things happen because you are willing to come in and participate with us. We could not do this without you. Obviously, we will take this information, develop best practices, get out guidance to our Election Officials that me hopefully help i will not say better elections, but smoother and elections, so we can continue to have it be the process we wanted to be. I will say, i think the currency here is voter responsibility. So, just as our Election Officials are responsible, voters also have to take responsibility. Thank you. Thank you. On behalf of your election colleagues around the country, i thank each of you for coming here today, coming prepared here today, sharing your perspective on this election and your advice as we prepare for good elections in following years. Again, thank you. State travels. We will take a 15minute break and reload the tables. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] coming up in about 20 minutes, we will take you live to the white house. President obama is set to name jack lew as the next treasury secretary, becoming the 76 to treasury secretary so far. So far only one republican has come not in opposition. We will hear from the president and likely jack lew as well. Vice President Joe Biden continues meetings on the Gun Violence Task force coming hearing from walnut wildlife Interest Groups this morning. He is doing a widespread review of the safety laws. He will be meeting in about half an hour with the National Rifle association. President obama has set a late january deadline for Vice President bidens proposals. Before the meeting got under way, he spoke to reporters for about 15 minutes. Let me thank you all for being here. You represent the bulk of sportsmen in this country, and you all know this is a complicated issue. There is no Singular Solution to how we deal with the kind of things that happen in new town or colorado or the general gun violence in america today. The president and i and the cabinet, we understand it is a complicated issue. That is why when the president asked me to do this in conjunction with my colleagues in cabinet, what we did was, we put together a pretty extensive list of what we consider to be the stakeholders wanting to deal with the issue of gun violence in america. The first groups mean that west where would not surprise you. National Law Enforcement organizations. Also, we got a sense of to give you a sense of what we have done so far, we met with the american medical community, a group of about 15 leading medical doctors representing organizations across the country. We have met with at risk youth and childrens advocacy groups from the alliance to promise america to the boys and girls club, etc. We believe this is cultural as much as it is weapons themselves. We met with Domestic Violence prevention communities. We met with justice organizations like the aba. We met with the National Legal aid and defenders associations, prosecutors. We met with National Service organizations. Kawano as, rotary international. We have met with youth groups. We have met with gun safety advocates. Yesterday that meeting took place here. Also come up a dozen other organizations also, a dozen other organizations. And we met with educators and parents from the School Boards to the state School Offices and associations. Again, the governors of those folks. And maybe one of the most important things we have been focusing on is the Mental Health community. The American Academy for childhood and adolescence psychiatry, the National Counselor community of Behavioral Health centers. There is a perspective among Health Providers that Mental Illness is a major component. And yesterday, we finished up on in this room with about 17 members of the faith community, which in all the years i have been doing this, the first time there has been overwhelming consensus on the evangelical groups nationwide. Particularly those from the rural areas. The National Catholic conference of bishops. The muslim community. Because this does up a significant moral dimension to it. How do we make the American Community safer . How do we go about it . And tonight, we meet with too. Later, i need with industry representatives, as well as the nra, and the executive director of defense, the head by a 3 the small arms advisory council, etc. The point i am trying to make to you is, we realize this requires all the stakeholders to give us the best ideas as to how we deal with what i said at the outset is a complicated problem. There is no single answer. To go back, i know a lot of you have been dealing with this issue since my times as chairman of the Judicial Committee of the way back and in the 1970s. If you look at the tragic events that have attracted some much attention, it is hard to pinpoint what you could have done to be sure it did not happen. But there are also things we know. We know there are certain actions we take back that have diminished the extent of gun violence that otherwise would be occurring in the United States. And so, the kinds of things there is an emerging set of recommendations. Not coming from me, but coming from groups we have met with. And i am going to focus on the ones that relate primarily to gun and ownership and the type of weapons that can beyond. One is, there is a surprising so far surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks. Not just closed with the gun show people local, but total universal background checks. There has been a lot of discussion from the groups we have met with so far. I think the chairman has been in any meetings with me. Has been in almost all the meetings with me. How do we share the information . How to get information for example convicted felons in the state how do they get in the nics . That is the thing that the gun dealer goes to to check your background, whether you are a felon. It does not do a lot of good if some states have a backlog of 60,000 felons they never registered. So, weve got to talk about theres a lot of talk about how we entice or what is the impediment keeping states from relaying this information. Theres also a good deal of talk about gun safety. And what responsibility goes along with gun ownership. That is something i am really anxious to talk to all of you about. Theres also surprising my former colleagues in the senate who have previously been opposed to any restrictions on gun ownership or what type of weapons can be purchased, as ever, there is i have never heard quite as much talk about limiting highcapacity magazines as i have heard spontaneously from every group we have met with so far. And the last area, which is an area that has come up, is the question of the ability of any federal agency to do research on the issue of gun violence. For example, we are meeting before the week is out with the video gaming industry. To use pat moynihans expression, when we first started talking about this, back said we980s, he started by defining deviancy down. He said we had this fascination with violent thoughts back in the 1930s, and he stood on the senate floor and he held up the new york times. On page 54 in the very back of the paper and entire family including grandmother, mother, father, children were basically assassinated in their apartment. They think it may have been about a drug deal. He said we can define it deviancy down. One of the things that prohibit the early part of this century, 2004, the centers for Disease Control gathering information about the kinds of injuries and what sort of energies and what are the source of the injuries . It kind of reminded me in a meeting yesterday. I was around in the 1970s. The only guy who can remember this i hope i am not insulting him is ray lahood. He remembers the Auto Industry. He remembers the whole question of Traffic Safety and highway safety. There was a big fight when i first got in the senate that began in the late 1960 fell through early 1970s. The Automobile Industry did not want to allow the department of transportation to acquire statistics on the type of accidents that occur. They were not able to literally acquire the information. Because the concern was it would lead to calls for some rational regulations for the guardrails for automobiles. I remember when we finally broke through and the department of transportation started keeping misinformation, they found out if my memory is correct the vast majority of drivers the Steering Wheel damage to their solar plexus, penetrated their upper body cavity, damaged their heart. The reason the industry did not want us knowing that, we had to do something about the Steering Wheel. Make sure that the Steering Wheel collapses. All of a sudden, they said you cannot make an automobile that does not have a Steering Wheel column with the following attributes. You have to make an automobile that can absorb excess amount of shock. All of a sudden we found out passengers were being killed going through the windshield. Skull fractures, hitting their head on the cross bar. All of a sudden, it made sense. Why not make airbags. Why not make air bags . We are saving lives. As you know, the real restrictions now on the ability of any agency in government to gather information about what kind of weapons are used most to kill people. How many weapons are used in traffic accidents . Our weapons used in gang warfare in our major cities . Are they legally purchased or purchased through a straw man . We do not have that information. And the irony is, we are prohibited under laws and appropriations bills. I want to talk to you all a little bit, as an owner of shotguns, as a guy who is no great hunter mostly caskey shooting i do not quite mostly skeet shooting i cannot quite know how we determine what is happening. There are a whole lot of things i want to talk to you about. I did want to talk to you about what we have done so far. We will meet again. This afternoon we had meetings. Tomorrow afternoon we have meetings. I am trying to have a telephone conferences with the manufacturers. There has got to be some Common Ground here. To not solve every problem, but to acknowledge the probability that we have seen these Mass Shootings occur and to diminish the probability that these shootings will occur as schools and to diminish the probability that these weapons will be used, firearms will be used dealing with the average behavior that occurs in our society. That is what this is all about. There is no conclusion i have reached with my colleagues. I have put together a series of recommendations. There is a very tight window to do this. I committed to him i would have these recommendations to him by tuesday. It does not mean it is the end of the discussion. But the public wants us to act. I will conclude by saying, in all my years involved with these issues, there is nothing that has pricked the conscience of the American People, nothing that has gone to the heart and mattered more than the visions that these people have of these little sixyearold kids riddled not shot riddled, riddled with bullet holes in their classroom. And the public demands we speak to it. And i am sure we cannot guarantee this will never happen again, but as the president said, if what we do and what we say only saves one life, that makes the difference. I do not believe we are imposing on the rights that the Second Amendment guarantees. Now with your permission, lets get down to business. I think the press for being here. [indiscernible] were going to talk about all these things. The vicepresident saying he would deliver the new gun policy proposals to president obama by tuesday. Those meetings continue. He will be meeting with gun owner groups in about 20 minutes, including the National Rifle association, the National Shooting sports association, representatives from the Entertainment Industry later today. Also attorney general eric holder meeting with retailers like walmart and bass pro shops. Also today, a pentagon briefing with leon panetta and general martin dempsey. That is expected to start at 3 00 p. M. We are expecting to hear from president obama as he announces his next treasury secretary, jack lew, if approved by the senate. In the meantime, a discussion about Immigration Reform in the 113th congress. Host this morning in the Washington Times it says host from the new york times, we also see a piece this week looking at a new study on enforcement and the money spent enforcing Immigration Laws. It says a new report sets the stage for a debate on immigration ove