We will be back. I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers of Disease Control and prevention with 30 years of Public Health and science and Emergency Response in medical Training Experience she now serves as the Deputy Director for the office of Public Health preparedness response thank you for being here. Next steve munro for the laboratory of science and Safe
I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers of Disease Control and prevention with 30 years of Public Health and science and Emergency Response in medical Training Experience she now serves as the Deputy Director for the office of Public Health preparedness response thank you for being here. Next steve munro for the laboratory of science and Safety Centers for Di
The u. S. Says it plans to overhaul its program aimed at training and supporting syrian rebels. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter admitted the Program Needs to change. We have been looking for now several weeks at ways to improve that program we are looking at different ways to achieve basically the same kind of strategic objective, which is the right one, to enable capable, motivated forces on the ground to retake territory from isil and reclaim syrian territory from extremism. Tom ackermann joins us live from washington. A stark admission there. Why now . Whats behind this decision . Its clear that this program has been a failure almost from the tart. The commanding general admitted to senators a couple of days ago that the objective of achieving a 5400 man fighting force by next year was unatainable, because of the tight requirements to make sure they werent getting isil infiltrators into the ranks. There was no unity in the units themselves. That was clear when a Splinter Group captu
Is it federal or state and local job . It is a job of every local government. City, county, state, federal. When i was in the state legislature i discovered we had passed laws that essentially banned 56 provisions from people who had been incarcerated. One was you wouldnt get a license to barber. Yet in state prison we taught barbering. Then the individual couldnt get a license. So we had to pass legislation to undo that. So when the war on drugs started in the 1980s we passed 2,000 laws of the years. We banned people from working. We need to look at a lot of legislation passed over the years and essentially unwind some of it. But we do have to create supportive services. People need support groups to help them do basic things, get their i. D. S, drivers license, may back child support, get their children back if their children have been entered into foster care. One of the things we dont pay a lot of attention to is the fact that a lot of people have been incarcerat incarcerated. The
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