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Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the...

I would point out that in a number of these states, for example, georgia North Carolina experienced after the implementation of their Reentry Program something modelled after the corrections act, they saw a 19. 3 reduction in recidivism. Other states, 10 in georgia, 9. 4 , right right. I think rather than take this as a matter of faith or perhaps expressing our hopes and best wishes, we actually have some real results we can point to that demonstrate the workability of some of these programs. I ...

Senatorgrassley whitehouse. Whitehouse let me thank you for your chairmanship of this process. You brought very distinctive use of your own, and youve facilitated all of us coming together in making this happen. I also want to mention, although he is not here today, the graham brought Magic Springs is a military prosecutor. Thanks to both of them. The department of justice as we work through complicated issues. Anator feinstein asked question about making sure when , the unitedas made states att...

Organizations efforts have contributed. I think that helps contribute tremendously to these results that i mentioned earlier. Thank you for your contributions to our efforts. I want to use the remaining time to say, as i travel from houston ustin to senator leo to san antonio to dallas most recently. Whether they are experts in this area or not, they tell me that formerroblems that many inmates have they have problems getting jobs because they have a criminal record. Even if you eliminate the bo...

Studio to discuss his latest album, covers of songs from broadway. Theres the goosebump thing when the melody just gets you and you dont know why. Sometimes, its in a genre you didnt think you liked and it just gets you and you just feel the hairs on the back of your neck. I love this song. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. An...

Theres the goosebump thing when the melody just gets you and you dont know why. Sometimes, its in a genre you didnt think you liked and it just gets you and you just feel the hairs on the back of your neck. I love this song. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more j...

Community and create value within groups. Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. And with the ongoing...

Community and create value within groups. Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. And with the ongoing...

Good arguments for us to try to undercut, undermine the negotiations until they have played themselves out. If iran ends up not being able to say yes, if they cannot provide us the kind of assurances that would lead myself and David Cameron and others to conclude that they are not obtaining a Nuclear Weapon then we are going to have to explore other options, i will be the first one to come to congress and say when you tighten the screws. And thats not the only options that are going to be availa...

Passthrough entity and so the president and the argument is that the americans gave the benefits. Well, if we didnt get any of the benefits, i think that we should be confident about that. And its important to know that this is not the first time had this discussion in front of us and it was defeated 33 to 65 and we have many of our democratic colleagues join with all the republicans to reject a statutory ban on exports. And this amendment that is pending, a they will see the same thing. And i s...