And whether you are black or white, if you get arrested and charged with a felony crime for doing some things that the last three president s of the United States admitted to doing, if you are arrested for that, tried and convicted and i say tried because with hesitancy because the majority of them are plea bargains as the president knows, if you get convicted of that felony offense for that nonviolent drug offense, the collateral consequences to your life are horrendous. We now live in a nation where the chat rail consequences are profound. The collateral consequences are profund. Time behind bars reduces peoples hourly wages by 11 . Their annual employment by nine weeks, their annual earnings by 40 . It has a powerful economic impact. If a person is convicted for possession of controlled substances, use, they become ineligible for so many benefits that we would often think that we would want these very people to have. They cant get federal education grants, like a pell grant. They ca
Their current what our assessment is of their intentions, so its not just to look at the assessments that were done mr. Secretary, youre not answering the question. If you dont have the information, then submit it. Its important for this committee to know who is low risk, medium risk and high risk. I would have expected you to come to this hearing with that information. Yes, mr. Chairman. I should add that these risk levels, in terms of who is in what category, is classified. We would be happy to have this conversation with you in a classified context as well. I think its safe to say many of them are in the medium to high risk category. Well, it would be very important for us to know that as we move forward. Yes, sir. Senator tillis touched on this issue of the notification of congress. And i think a lot of people were very disturbed by that. Just by reading it in the paper. Can you, again if you dont have it here, perhaps with the attorney generals help, provide a detailed, detailed l
Carmel Research Center as well. And the full 25 letters of report the Science Committee received for this legislation. I have no other requests for time but before i reserve, i want to thank the three original cosponsors we have on the floor tonight. And i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas reserves. This is a good bill that will improve services. The results of the changes contained in this legislation, it will be more timely and accurate forecasts that will protect lives and property. Ms. Bonamici researchers have found that annual variations can produce billions of dollars in reduced gross domestic products. With stakes that large we owe it to our nation. H. R. 1561 takes steps to support noaa and how we harness research. I want to thank the many leaders in the Research Community and the private weather sector who provided advice to the committee as we worked on this bill. I extend my appreciation to the under secretary for oceans and atmosphere for her cooper
The presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 56, the nays are 43. The amendment as modified, has passed. The presiding officer there are two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the reed amendment number 919. Mr. Reed mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from rhode island. Mr. Reed mr. President this amendment is based on legislation that senator blumenthal and i introduced in the last congress to close a major loophole in the current Corporate Tax law by putting an end to unlimited tax writeoffs for performancebased executive pay. In 1993 congress limited the deduct act of executive deductibility of executive pay to 1 million with the exception for performancebased compensation. But over the last two decades corporations have made the exception the rule and the weve seen increasingly more pay designated as performance even in some cases where the company is not doing very well for the shareholders. Its been estimated that between 20072010, 121. 5 billion of executive p
Should be out too. A lot to cover. Dagen look here. On capitol hill, a producer, congressional world war ii matter and that lawmakers in the world war ii memorial. A little later on. Dagen day 2 of the shutdown, stocks are shutting down, triple digit lost all over the place. Nicole petallides driving trading today. Nicole we are seeing the fear index back up. A lot more focus on washington. A lot of people focusing on the fact that it was a new month, new quarter on wall street and you see the excitement of the new month and new quarter, these down arrows and we will have a down week this week. And we are down 107 on the Dow Jones Industrials and most of the names on the dow have down arrows and only a couple are squeezing out a gain. Connell wall street ceos, the Government Shutdown, the debt ceiling debate likely to be the big items on the agenda. Dagen rich edson is fired up at the white house with everything you need to know. Rich did this a couple years ago, and coceo pushing pres