In how we can reduce the prison population without increasing the risk to our communities and also thoughts on how we can look out for the safety of our prison guard population. Where they themselves dont feel that they are captive by the prisoners. You bring up a compassionate situation. We welcome your insights. I think evidence shows that if you committed murder you are not likely to commit murder after 65 but if youre a sexual predator you could be out on that playground once again. We welcome your insights on how we can work constructively evidencebased conceptual thinking and your own experience because you bring the experience of a longitude from enforcement to sentencing and inspector general. We really appreciate your service but im going to ask the staff on both sides of the aisle because this has been raised by other members so this is not a party thing. This is a committee thing, to meet with our staff on how we can implement working with the attorney general of prison refo
Holding hearings on fixing a broken tax code and building a new system that works in todays Global Digital economy. On tuesday we are going to have a hearing on how to protect taxpayers from incompetent and fraudulent repairs. Now there are other issues like Identity Theft and taxpayers rights that we will have to examine. Senators nelson and harden have put a lot of time and effort into solving these challenges in this committee will need to take a hard look at the issues surrounding multiemployer Pension Plans in order to protect americans hardearned benefits. This bill takes a first step and i intend to work with my colleagues to do more. Today we have got to belmont shortterm needs with longterm goals in the bill before us today does that. Senator hatch and i agreed to start trimming, to start reconfiguring the overgrown extenders. After president reagan signed the 1986 Tax Reform Act into law there were only 14 provisions they carried expiration states so we have got a lot of heav
Those limited days of a temporary restrange order, that restraining order, shouldnt be able to go out and buy a weapon. This isnt a denial of due process that the judge actually has to make a finding that there is a threat of violence. Those are fairly limited circumstances, but if this amendment is passed, we will save lives. You know, senator blumenthal closed and ill close in the same vein by noting that, well, this amendment will save lives; it is not going to dramatically change the reality in this country, which is 80plus People Killed every day by guns. But everybody has a role to play in trying to reduce the rates of gun violence. A young man in new haven by the name of doug bethea lost a close friend of his, a 16yearold boy named torrence gamble. We saw at a funeral for another friend of theirs killed by gun values, and torrence said he wanted to get off the streets and start setting his life straight. He wanted to set up a time to meet with his friend doug to find a way out.