Another Congress Making action is the congressional youth caucus, the chairs works to promote respect, health, safety, and fun, and save activity among children and players. This is really partnership between educators, schools, parents, coaches, and student athletes. So what is this caucus doing around the issue of concussion . We are finding out in the new year that the caucus plans to meet and continue discussions on youth sports injury as well. Finally, i would like to go to the statehouse. In this case richman, the state level, just on the 15th of december last year, the Virginia Commission on youth conducted a study providing a study providing a dozen recommendations to the governor, and the Virginia Department of education. Some of them centered on concussions. The first of which is requesting the department of health and the department of education Work Together to assess the capability of doing training on updating concussion guidelines and awareness. They previously conducted
Your back, you scratch mine and we spend the money. But as a consequence were borrowing a Million Dollars a minute. I think we need to be very aware of where we are situated as a country. I think we need to be very aware of the consequences of continuing to borrow a Million Dollars a minute. I think as we go forward we have to understand what the founders intended for our country. We need to understand where our richness, where our greatness came from. Were the richest, greatest, most humanitarian country ever known in the history of man. In 2014 alone we gave away privately, through charity, nearly 3 400 billion. That doesnt happen in cuba, they dont make wealth. If you want to know why we won the cold war, we beat russia and all of communism because the engine of capitalism defeated the engine of communism. Because we produce great wealth is why we were able to defeat the soviet union. If you dont know how wealth is created and you dont realize where wealth come from, if we dont real
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the National Press clubs Morning Newsmaker Program here in washington, d. C. Todays topic is preventing youth sports concussion and what washington, d. C. , is doing about it. One of the first major metro areas in the region to provide a grant for research, education and monitoring of concussions in youth sports. And were also here to talk about other youth sports injury. This newsmaker panel will offer an examination of data, trends and concussion research, state policies and whether or not the u. S. Department of education should adopt federal compliance mandates. Every state in the union has a concussionrelated law on the books and a sports and youth Injury Program regulation on the books. Enforcement is the issue, and compliance is the issue, and thats what the doctors here this morning and the sports data person is going to be talking to us about. My name is mike smith, and i serve on the National Press Club Newsmaker committee, and the comm
Started at 7 00 a. M. In virginia youll be voting for one senate seat and all the house seats. Were going to start with the senate where incumbent mark warner is facing off against gillespie. He held a rally with tim kaine in alexandria. Gillespie spend the night campaigning. Well be watching the tenth district where they are running against Democrat John fous. The frank wolf held the seat since 1981. Foust was in one of the most negative races this year. Right now hes behind in the polls. And from a new mayor to marijuana, youll be voting, and your votes will make a big impact today. In the district, you will not only decide the next mayor, youll decide whether to legalize marijuana. Youll have a choice to vote yes or no to Ballot Initiative 81, which legalizes the possession of limited amounts of marijuana. Supporters will hold an Election Night party, as well as a fundraiser for d. C. Central kitchen. While this initiative legalizes the possession of pot, it does not legalize the sa
Made the pilgrimage to new york city for the funeral. The 32yearold policeman was shot execution style, along with officer ramos, on december 20. The Police Unions accuse mayor bill de blasio taking sides against them. Some in the crowd turned their backs as the mayor spoke inside. Police commissioners seem to offer an olive branch to his angry rankandfile. Why do we always lose the big ones . Its the law of averages. The most all of them are good ones. Very few are not. Lius father was overcome with heartbreak, recalling a dutiful son. And his wife of just two months. He was my soulmate. Said goodbye through her tears. My loving husband and a loyal friend. I love you. I love you. I will forever love you. Lius grave is in the same cemetery as ramos, who died beside him. The new year means a whole new life for a nineyearold d. C. Boy. He survived what Doctors First thought was a fatal gunshot would. Tom roussey shares his big plans. I will be sitting somewhere sitting with them. They pl