Baseball, basketball, football, track, and the many sports that come under the olympics mandate. This bill in particular i wish to remind our colleagues again provides relief, but we really hope it is a deterrent and works to move other nations, the european union, to be able to establish these kinds of responses to doping. This act establishes criminal penalties for participating in a scheme in commerce to influence a Major International sport competition through prohibited substances or methods. It also provides restitution to victims of such conspiracy, athletes in particular, many of them who have suffered great losses because of this fraud. It protects whistleblowers from retaliation by criminalizing participation in International Doping fraud conspiracies, whistleblowers will be included in existing witness Protection Laws and establishes coordination and sharing of information with the u. S. Antidoping agency. To establish a matrix if you will, a format. So i want to say that we
And what legislative steps could be taken to curb gun violence. This is just over an hour and a half. The forum will come too orde, please. We welcome everyone and thank them for being here. Our speakers, thank you very much for being here. Our fellow members and guests of the committee, thank you. We are here today because 203 days ago the house passed bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation, and the u. S. Senate has done nothing. After every mass shooting that makes the headlines, leader mcconnell says its too soon to talk about policy. Unfortunately, there have been more Mass Shootings this year than there have been days in the year. If we wait for a day without gun violence, to talk about it, we will be waiting forever. The Senate Leader mcconnell hopes if we wait, if you wait this out, it will just go away. Well, were not going away. Were not going to go away because childrenir are dying, ad the tron is scaring an entire generation. As of this week, i find her children unde
A wonderful job. I will not have my sons name go out like that. Brendens mother is in shock, but she wants to thank police for their quick work. Brenden wilson was shot and killed monday afternoon. Police say they arrested the shooter, smalls, tuesday. He is charged with murder. Hes also a convicted felon with several robbery charges. They say smalls, timothy, and two other juveniles lured brenden to the cut through. Why these monsters wanted to murder my son, i still dont know. According to the complaint, the Group Planned to rob brenden of marijuana. Smalls allegedly shot the high schooler at close range and fired several more rounds into brendens body. Police say there was an on going disagreement. He was a troubled kid. You know, got bullied a lot. And i can relate to that. Thats how he helped me. His way out of that was going into drugs. Brendens friends and family say he was bullied. He hurt so bad inside. But on the outside, he was big. He was tough. And he wasnt going to let an
Flanked by the Democratic Women of the upcoming 113th congress, nancy pelosi ended speculation that she might step down as House Minority leader. In order to continue to work on empowering women, to making sure our Affordable Care act is enforced in a way that no longer being a woman be a preexisting medical condition. [ applause ] to work with the president to create jobs and grow our economy in a way that empowers women in the workplace. And i have made a decision to submit my name to my colleagues to, once again, serve as the House Democratic leader. [ cheers and applause ] a Record Number of women were just elected, many of them democrats. The house now has 78 female members, 50 democrats, 28 republicans. They came to washington for orientation and to get ready for the upcoming session. I think theyll kick some of those issues down the road so when we get back well have to look for longterm solutions for job creation, making the tax structure fairer and the appropriations, i think