I am very pleased subcommittee is holding this hearing. After decades of policies that led to mass incarceration, we are finally at a point of examining the policies and the consequences. What has been missing from the discussion of criminal Justice Reform as the special and specific impact the tough own crime arrow has had on women and children. Todays hearing begins a discussion about women and the criminal Justice System. It is critical we understand how and why women become involved in the system, what happens to them when they are in one when they are incarcerated, and what happens when they are released. We need to what happens to families and especially children when women are incarcerated. We need to examine the special needs women have when they are incarcerated. What is different . What happens to their children when they are in the system and when they are released . Federal law can lead to termination of parental rights if the child of an incarcerated woman remains in foste
Credibility and accountability and will tip to do so. Do you have another question. Im going to make a quick note on that. And see if dan agrees. Afghanistan is going from a fairly corrupt patronage system to a system which will be professional, transparent and noncorrupt. That is a long hard road to travel. And if president ghani moves too fast he will break his politics. And he will cause so many groups to be disgruntled with him and organize against him. So we have to be patient and recognize that this kind of transition is very difficult. Hes got to be on that road he has to be convincing of the afghan people, but we have to give him a little slack. Because if he moves too fast and breaks his politics and we lose the government, then we lose the possibility of moving to a professional, transparent and nonrupt system and go back to the old afghanistan and that is not good for anybody. Sorry. And i absolutely concur with that. And i guess finally the last question on reconciliation a
This panel will look to what we can and are doing at home and internationally to counter those threats. Specifically, the panel will explore questions the rise of these threats and the parallel rise of the new world of ubiquitous connectedness and the internet of everything raise for policymakers. How do we protect connected societies . Whos responsible for what . What are the rules of the road . What are the ways where we think it a place where normative behavior is agreed upon internationally . Moderating the session we have john, probably the longest and oldest reporter covering this, going back to the 1970s. Writing the same stories until most recently. A reporter in the science section of the new york times. Part of a group of reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2013. He has a book coming. Request for Common Ground between humans and machines. [applause] thank you, everyone. My panelists to my left, the director of the National Security agency. Suzann
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Just for your use, our staff had put together a summary of the evaluations that several of our speakers today had put into their presentations. So when you are looking for things that you can work on, we have put it all on one page for you. So take that as grist for your legislative mill or your policy mill. I want to thank you for your attention to a really under underappreciated set of issues that we were ai belieble to add. I want to thank our friends for allow us to put this together and helping us to recruit some of the folks you have heard. I want to thank our panel and particularly i want to recall the eloquent testimony that we heard from deborah rowe and Jacqueline Craig bay as well as the panelists you see up here and ask you to join me in thanking all of them for a very useful discussion on a very difficult topic. [ applause ] thank you, ed. Tonight on cspan3, an interview with Michigan States university. Its part of our special sear on universities in the big 10 conference.