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I support this legislature. Thank you. Thank you. Any others . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor tang . Supervisor katy tang actually i just wanted to thank wise Youth Commissioners and former Youth Commissioner chiu but especially commissioners ger owes andchersky for their work and others. I wanted to thank you while there is youth legislation that is coming forward that shes helped, but it really coming from young peoples long efforts of organizing and education of all the...

675 million cap on concussion related claims available to thousands of players as part of a major lawsuit. And so without objection i will enter the nfl statement in the record. And part of what were going to discuss today is traumatic brain injuries, a bump, a blow, a jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal flow the normal function of the brain. More mild tbis, more commonly referred to as concussions, have been the center of increasing discussion within the Sport...

Join us tonight for more from booktv. Our focus, american astronauts and space travel. This weekend on the cspan networks, friday night on cspan, native american history. Former nfl tight end in utah told the Senate Special committee on aging that is absent in his memory. The committee examined the link between sports injuries impacting the brain and whether the lead to aging diseases like alzheimers. Other witnesses included are a logical researchers called for limiting young peoples participat...

There is a link between head injuries and neurological diseases, but it is clear that this Important Research could lead to a better understanding of such devastating diseases as alzheimers, parkinsons and als. This Critical Research could also benefit our veterans and troops on the ground, far too many of whom have experienced tbi and its painful lasting effects. Again, mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing. With a great panel of witnesses, and i look forward to getting their insight...

Families i listened to who continue to struggle to get into and stay in our middle class. For many in the middle class wages have remained stubbornly stagnant as incomes for the wealthy have continued to grow. At the same time, too Many Americans have just stopped looking for work altogether during the recession and havent begun that job search again. Simply put, we have a lot of work to do together to ensure that the middle class experiences the benefits of this recovery. On that note, i apprec...

40 years. One, putting the patients at the center of discovery, development and delivery process. More efficient Clinical Trials. Meaningful working relationships between patients. And diseasespecific organizations. One of the great advancements of the past two decades has been the strengthening and improvement of the disease Recognition Research group. Two, incentivize collaboration across sectors in the r d process. Public private partnership. Look at history books and see those partnerships b...

Religion in previous social study guidelines. To find out i worked through 99 years worth of state educational documents. Went back as early as i could go. They were of different genres and there were suggestions and sometimes mandatory and they came from different offices and agencies but they contained general comparison and it baz very interesting. What did i discover . You sometimes hear the idea that religion was once prevalent in the social studies curriculum and somehow it has been taken ...

And ive heard confessions and i know people struggling with these issues and i always have that in front of my mind when im speaking about it. And i think what we need to do is exactly what jesus did when he and now im speaking from a theological point of view and ill let you political thinks put it into your own belly lick. But jesus when he engages the woman who objectively has committed adultery and under the mosaic law, the penalty was stoning, doesnt say dont stone her. First he engages the...

Continue to address outdated sentencing laws. Unethical prosecutors. We will communicate the experience of criminal defendants. Our sons and our daughters and our cousins and next door neighbors. The defendants in our communities that they have confident council. You will see the Congressional Black Caucus fighting for targeted funding for persistent communities. They are at least 300 native counties in the United States where 20 or more of the population has been living below the poverty line n...

John there are three ways to help people who need help, government can try to do it. Give people money, start programs. Charities do that too, and id say theyre better at teaching people how to help themselves. Theres the saying goes teach a man to fish. Then theres a third way, i think its the best way. Ill get to that later in the show. But first lets debate the first two. When i was in college, president Lyndon Johnson declared allout war on human poverty. He said for the first time in our hi...