I now recognize senator klobuchar, and before we start her clock, let me express my appreciation to her for the work shes done i think really leading this committee on synthetic drugs, bath salts and so forth and trying to improve the scheduling response to that. Senator klobuchar. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, and thank you for holding that allday meeting yesterday with senator portman about addiction and the work that needs to be done. I was pleased to take part in that, and we welcome you, administrator lee p onhart. Leonhart. You spent many years in minnesota, how many years . Most of my childhood. Yes. Well, were proud to have you in this job. As you and i talked about last week, i recently led a delegation to mexico a few weeks ago on the topic of sex trafficking as well as heroin. And i think we asked every single official there, including the attorney general of mexico and the held of the federal police, about what was going on with heroin. I was there with senator heitkam
Allowing some alcohol on the premises. And i dont know all the details of it but its a very tricky area and very important one. As you say nothing is more likely to lead to recidivism than not having any place to go realistically, so. I will speak briefly to the lawabiding Public Housing tenants. I think you would also hear a voice, while it is an entitlement, it is being sucksy diesed by the rest of us they dont want people just got out of prison coming back and wreaking havoc. Might not be the nicest place in the world but it is their home. Do we have to be subjected to mrs. Smiths son dante got out for robbery on third time and he is coming back and i know he will be doing, a, b and c . I know there is relationship between the consequence and for the good of the order for other people. That is a tough question. Yes . Thank you. Eric elman with the consumer data industry association. The collateral consequences discussion is really about saying no and part of this Public Policy debat
And so in florida they go zerotolerance but in essence they turn on its head. So if they said is the same thing that theyve done in colorado, it has to law and so they pulled all the districts in those states to change the way you do discipline. And the state of maryland, and interview, you already know this, the state school board okay, the state school board did this and oppose regulations on alldistrict in the state of maryland to do the same thing. What did they do . No more misdemeanors can be referred to Law Enforcement. Now to have to be addressed at the school. Changing the philosophy. We do not want to exclude students from school environment. We want to keep them there. We understand all student are not perfect. We want to take you where you are and were going to work with you. Thats a basic fundamental shift in philosophy on how to deal with this behavior in school. And so these three things are perfect examples of what you can do in your own states if you want to take that
And currently what at georgetown university. [applause] at georgetown university, in 2011 he received wide attention for the course and he talked called one of the sociology of hiphop, jayz. Its earned the book award and the naacp image award for Outstanding Literary Work twice. Dr. Michael eric dyson is a genius who can write about any subject for the late civil rights of and Martin Luther king would reflections on hiphop dinham race, the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. If you turn your tv on, you can often find him on every major media outlet including the the today show, nightline, the oreilly factor, the report. He is a contributing editor to Time Magazine and has an hourlong news program on npr called the the Michael Eric Dyson show. Nbc and join me in welcoming our commentator dr. Michael eric dyson. [applause] thank you, president elect armstrong for that very gracious introduction. Its an honor to be here today to talk about this very serious matter and how we can dismantle the
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