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[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barr...

And then drive it forward in 2017. Thanks for listening. [applause] i know j stand before you and lunch but i am happy to take any questions for you. Just an opportunity to talk about a book. It is called fixing the future and how canadas government worked together to rescue the canada pension plan. It is an interesting story and the same issue as the Social Security except we ended up with a situation where we doubled the contribution rate and built up the reserve fund and stabilized the contri...

Committee vote. This is about two and a half hours. Well, this Fun Committee is going to come to order. As announce in the markup, im sorry, we have a quorum here and were going to have an exciting and fun day. I havent had this much fun since we went over red snapper. Lets just do red snapper and puerto rico all of the time. Ive never seen so much so much frivolity coming in here. As announced in the markup notice ill give priority to those who filed bipartisan and amendments by the amendment d...

Integrate our mutual interest but also ensure it doesnt impede our flow of services across the border. When it comes to security, its pretty well embedded. Its intelligence sharing. Its drones. Its 20,000 customs and Border Protection agents. Security is fine, but i think one of the unsung relationships that has proven pretty valuable to both countries is the Sentry Program where we prescreen millions of prescreen individual mexican citizens coming b back and forth across e program, and the secu...

Rulemaking have. And so just want to just remind you that i havent forgotten about that. But i want to ask you about s. E. C. Rulemaking and Small Business. As you know, senator heller and i introduced a bipartisan bill that would create an office of Small Business within the Small Business advocate within the s. E. C. Im wondering if you had had a chance to review that legislation, if you have an opinion. Well, first, let me say that i think we have really prioritized the, you know, the interes...

Itself issues. Texas a quand m, university of texas at austin, the university of houston, other institutions, these arell public universities. And these individuals, these students, pay tuition to go to these public universities. And in response, theyre issued identification vehicles. Identification cards. But the state of texas has seen fit to say, thats not valid in order to vote. And i think that one example, and weve heard several others, basically exposes the fact that the movement to impos...

One second here. This is the easy stuff. And allows them to go into other areas. That is why i really to accept this, because it doesnt mandate anything, it is a study. If you want to keep talking on this we can keep talking on this. Anyone else . Any amendments . All those in favor say aye. Opposed say nay. O rollcall. Mr. Bishop. Yes. No. No. No. No. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. No. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. No. No. Cler...

But when we see a 12yearold boy in cleveland get killed, standing still with a toy gun, offices are choosing this time and time again. To ignore the racist element and this is to live in a wonderland. The severald about dozen laws that are out there these days, to address police violence. Is there one piece of legislation you can point to out there that you think might make a significant difference moving forward . Guest president obama could signing executive order, or congress could put legisl...

Max richmond. This amendment deals with the cost of living adjustment. One of the most anticipated events for seniors is the announcement by Social Security of the cost of living adjustment. For the last few years, they have been disappointed with the announcement. The purpose of a costofliving adjustment is for social ensure that Social Security benefits are not eroded by inflation. This is not happening. In 2010, it was zero. 2011, it was zero. This year, 2015, it is zero. Based on that Social...

China and taiwan claim them. Prime minister abe has responded by setting up a Liaison Office the government also set up a Liaison Office at the Crisis Management center in the Prime Ministers Office to gather and share information on the frigate. Vice minister for foreign s a supply ship also sailed close wednesday night. The ministry is analyzing whether theres any connection with the chinese and russian vessels presence in the area. The ministry is analyzing whether theres any connection betwe...