Subcommittee will come to order without objection declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on the federal bureau of prisons. I ask our friend florida ms. Lee to lead us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flagr which it stands, one nation under god and indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, ms. Lee. Without objection the gentleman from maryland mr. Ivy will be able to participate for the purpose of questioning the witness if the gentleman yields him time for that purpose, i see no objection. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I thank director peters for coming today and the audience, we appreciate you being here. This hearing is oversight of the bureau of prisons. The federal bureau of prisons is component of the department of justice. Bop to protect society in confining offenders in controlled environments of prisons and communitybased facilities that are safe, humane, cost efficient and properly secured and
Be here with sally susman, whom i will make a very brief introduction and then she will speak very well for herself and for for book. So sally is the evp chief Corporate Affairs officer pfizer. She is the author as, you know, of breaking through, communicating to open minds, move heart and change the world. She spent her early career in government and industry, and she started at the bottom. American express and eventually held senior positions in communication roles with amex, with the sd Lauder Companies. And for the last 17 years at pfizer as a young girl, she wanted to be either an investigative journalist or the mayor of her hometown of saint louis. Theres still plenty of time to do to do those things. When she left for college, she notes in the book, her dad gave her a letter and it said, your reputation is most important asset good thing for your child to be thinking about. They head off to school for the first time. Her dad was a lawyer. Former vice chairman of citi, citigroup
You all for being here. Im really honored. Be here with sally susman, whom i will make a very brief introduction and then she will speak very well for herself and for for book. So sally is the evp chief Corporate Affairs officer pfizer. She is the author as, you know, of breaking through, communicating to open minds, move heart and change the world. She spent her early career in government and industry, and she started at the bottom. American express and eventually held senior positions in communication roles with amex, with the sd Lauder Companies. And for the last 17 years at pfizer as a young girl, she wanted to be either an investigative journalist or the mayor of her hometown of saint louis. Theres still plenty of time to do to do those things. When she left for college, she notes in the book, her dad gave her a letter and it said, your reputation is most important asset good thing for your child to be thinking about. They head off to school for the first time. Her dad was a lawye
don t just watch. participate. worship with us now. come on. his goal is to walk out of the dark. and to resurrect his heart. come on, rise up, take a breath here and rise up. can you hear up the voice of jesus calling us. the power that controls you, can t you hear the voice of jesus calling us. out from the grave of nazareth. that is a awesome. s that s cain performing rise up as our seven week faith and friends concert series wraps up this easter sunday. and a that s what we ve been celebrating all morning on this easter sunday. it s wonderful. cain s going to hang out with us, no relation, by the way. [laughter] we ve been making that joke off camera all morning long. they re from alabama, so roughly the same region, somewhat. they re going to hang out all morning long, performing later in the show. easy there, texas. those are my neighbors over there. it s closer than new jersey. are they making sure that people don t draw the correlation of rela
Increasing the numbers that we serve, the facilities will be there. And today i would ask for a continuance of this particular item. It was my fault that it was confusing where things were at. The initiative was presented by signatures and with this one. First i want to recognize ivy lee from supervisor kims office. I just wanted to give you an opportunity also to present on behalf of supervisor kim who couldnt be with us today but is also the lead sponsor on this initiative. Thank you so much, chair cohen. And thank you, supervisors, for your time today on this issue. You know, i just want to speak from a very personal point of view. About this measure. I have three kids of my own. And victory and i were both nonprofit attorneys. We made 90,000 between the two of us and we had three kids all in child care at the same time. It was a real struggle. And it was a part of it was part of the reason that i gave up work for about three years in other words to take care of the kids because my