And for the prosecution of the relating crimes. It is something that is a significant challenge for our community as it is from baltimore to miami to wisconsin, all over our country. We really are seeing a significant shift from the Prescription Drug epidemic into her oh win. Let me turn if i might, to a program mentioned before by senator bozeman. Oakland, chicago detroit, camden and wilmington delaware. The office of National Drug control policy which is under the Financial Services subcommittee, and their hida program is newly engaged in the work in wilmington, delaware, despite our fairly small size relative to detroit or chicago wilmington has one of the highest rates of Violent Crime and murder in the last few years. And a newly energized and engaged mayor and police chief and statewide elected officials and Community Leaders are tack tackling this challenge effectively. I would like to hear from each of you. What youre hearing about progress in wilmington, what you think are the
Take your seats. Thank you. Cspan3 live today. Just waiting for the American Public Transportation Association conference to begin. Theyre in washington d. C. For their annual legislative summit. Take a look at some of the work recently in the house on transportation. Cq role call reporting recently on the first transportation bill of the new congress. They worked on that last week. The Passenger Rail reform and investment act approved by Committee Last month by unanimous vote and the Congressional Budget Office saying the bill would authorize 7. 2 billion in spending from 2017 to 2020 the biggest grant to amtrak. Were live in the american Transportation Associations conference. Had a great, great session already this morning, 7 30 this morning. Who was all in there eating breakfast . All right. All right. Listen, welcome to aptas 40th annual legislative conference and to our nations capitol. Yesterday was some great sessions, werent they with the mayor of washington d. C. And various
Its international, but its also big time national. I think youre characterization of it is correct, senator. Its a huge feature of our work. In all of our field offices, we work in 70some task forces to try to address it. We work internationally to try and address it, so its a big feature in our life. We are trying to make sure we send a message that there are huge costs to doing this in the United States. Were focused on the individuals. You allude to the challenge with internet sites. Thats a challenge for us. Obviously, we have a wonderful country with a First Amendment that protects peoples ability to create sites. Were trying to focus on the individuals who may be operating a site with purposes of trafficking and lock them up for a long period of time and were doing that all over the country. Have you had any success . Oh, yeah. We sure have. Could we learn more about that . Not now. Id appreciate sitting down with you. According to the Government Accountability office, the famous
Epitome of the pure partnership. Its the most important event of the year for transportation, and it represents a group of people that go off and do their own business separately, but here theyre partners for the greater good of the overall. Were very excited to be a part of this. We would like to think that we can help in any way we can, but we hope to get to work with all you guys for the next two days and learn a little bit about where things are going, and hopefully make some impact for the greater good of the whole industry. So with that in mind, i have a couple things. One, dont forget while youre here that the purpose of this event, and it reads to direct the industrys advocacy efforts and legislative strategy. The key words i saw there were the advocacy, so everyone here is an advocate. And second is that youre doing it for the industry. And so please look out for your cohorts, your friends, the other guys who couldnt be here. Dont forget the rural folks who dont get to come to
So when you do those conversations that leave you scratching your head a little bit. What are you asking for . What could washington do to make this easier for you . Short of comprehensive . I dont know. Short of comprehensive reform what they can do. President obama has chosen that course and we can agree or disagree with it, but hes not saying as the rest of us arent saying we dont need a comprehensive solution because when you pick up pieces like Border Security and dealing with health care and dealing with the dreamers. Youre still leading a big segment of the population in the communities today unaddressed in terms of their status and in terms of their contributions to our community and their feeling of being part of our community and for all of us in cities we want our residents to feel like theyre in a secure place. All right. We have a question over here. Yeah . Quick question. Ive been a School Principal for many, many years and what weve done when other students are coming fr