I want to thank the panelists for your patience. Thank you for being here and being with us and were looking forward to your testimony. Rather than go through the record well start. Thank you. So first of all, id like to thank the committee for the extraordinary work that you did with all of the stakeholders to get a longterm faa reauthorization bill passed. It had been a long time since that had happened and everyone came together, and the votes that you received, we are 393 in the house and 93 in the senate. This is a clear mandate to move forward with very important safety provisions for our Aviation System. Among those was our issue of ten hours rest for Flight Attendants. Now, this is an issue of safety, health and equality. Safety, we had been raising the flag on this issue for more than 30 years, identifying Flight Attendant fatigue, getting through other faa reauthorization bills the commission of fatigue studies, seven in fact that determined that Flight Attendant fatigue does
Billion to the ayatollah khamenei, who chants death to america in front of mobs burning american and israeli flags. And even though it threatens the security of israel and potentially the lives of millions of americans, i believe that congress has the constitutional power of the purse but i believe congress can still do nothing whatsoever to protect the american citizens. I believe that congress can do nothing to protect religious liberty or free speech, that Congress Must quietly accept an i. R. S. That targets citizens for exercising their Constitutional Rights and a president who ignores federal law. And federal judges who disregard the text of the constitution. I believed Republican Leadership when they promised the American People that if only we had congressional majorities, we would fight obamacare and amnesty and lawlessness. And today i believe Republican Leadership when they say, of course we cannot and will not do any of that. And it was unreasonable for anyone to have belie
About Mental Health. Lamar alexander chairs the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. The Senate Committee on Health Education and labor will come to order. It is suggested that we go ahead, the senator is going to be here very shortly. She and i will have an Opening Statement and then we will introduce the panel of witnesses. After the witness testimony the senators will have five minutes of questions. Today we are discussing the importance of the issue of Mental Health and substance health disorders. It affects a great many americans. According to a 2013 report from the National Survey of drug use and health, one in five adult over the age of 26 years old reported suffering from Mental Illness. In the same timeframe one in 10 americans between the ages of 12 and 17 years old reported having at least one major depressive episode. In tennessee, about one in five adults reported having a Mental Illness in 2013. That is more than a million tennesseans according to the Ten
The clery act. I can tell you in my 17 plus years in this agency, i have never been more impressed or proud of a role making effort. Work began on our implementation strategy after the passage and from the very beginning we have focused on reaching out to the people who are most affected by Campus Sexual Assault and to top exrts in fie who in may and june of last year the department held public hearings where we heard from students and advocates and institutional officials on a range of campus crime topics including the proper role of Law Enforcement and Campus Sexual Assault investigations and the need to find a balance between transparency and confidentiality. And the fall of 2013 we conducted our sessions with student groups, and Campus Safety advocates, campus Law Enforcement and other stakeholders to develop our understanding of their concerns andrstanding of their concerns and to help directly and to hear directly from them about how the law should be implemented. We built relati
Push factors. Ive seen these reports. People are fleeing difficult conditions, theyre reuniting with family in the United States, theyre fleeing Economic Uncertainty and failed governments both locally and nationally. So the conditions youre talking about, the crime, the uncertain conditions, the poor conditions economically, what has changed dramatically would you admit that the numbers have increased dramatically . There is no doubt about that. So is there a corresponding increase dramatically in poorness of conditions in these countries south of the border . Its been a while since those conditions have existed. So there seems to be an awareness that is perpetrating among american citizens that things have exponentially decreased south of the border and thats increased this immigration south of the border to the United States. I dont know if its true and you dont know of any metric that would support that. Not metrics. So do you think that there is any difference in our policy . And