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And Niels Lesniewski is a reporter for roll call. You worked very hard on the farm bill. It was not included in the fiscal cliff bill. They not include the extension that you wanted and that you had worked out with congressman lucas. What do you feel was lost by not including either the farm bill or the extension that you wanted . The most important thing is what you said in terms of the house. We passed a bill, as you know, back in june, strong bipartisan effort, deficit reduction of 24 billion...

What steps will the epa take to ensure that electric consumers will not be harmed . Please explain regional flexibility sent some areas will feel more impact than others. That is a good question and let me make a note for myself so i dont forget. In this rulemaking, we have to keep in mind that this is about future power plants, new power plants so, really, we needed to understand what technologies were available and we needed to make sure that we wrote a rule that took advantage of the most cos...

Loan debt. It announced a measure late in the week that democrats plan a student loan push in june. What are they proposing to do . This is a way to lower the Interest Rates on student loans. What is interesting about this you have to look at everything especially that the senate is doing this year as an electionyear push. Democrats found the student loan push helpful when they took recontrol of the senate. They have done it repeatedly. It is an issue not only with young people but with families...

Involved because it is not just the right thing to do for veterans, but also the right thing to do for their budgets. Onent studies have shown chronically homeless person can cost communities between 30 50,000 per year in emergency room visits, medical bills, Law Enforcement for some individuals can be even higher. The cost to give someone a home the cost to give someone a home of their own is only about 20,000. This is on so many Different Levels and that is why i want to applaud everyone leadi...

With some leadership from the community or a Faith Organization or a parent i think it will actualize. The sunnyvale safety and Police Department have been really spectacular and have spearheaded this with officer holly lawrence. She has the program, its in place, we call it train the trainer where we train other Police Officers to take it back to their counties. Its a spectacular program and is available now. So we dont have to wait. A good thing about the digital age is were going to take some...

Department, they are receiving services and they are in programs with the county and so having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. So i thought id mention that. The other thing that we are moving towards in education is more digital. Well see less textbooks and more Digital Learning and with that we are promoting a Digital Literacy policy which deals with a number of issues and im going to go back and look at the draft policy to see how well it deals w...

Had to take a month off of work, went back to work and the first day back at work my wife calls me, we just got a phone message from a tailor asking we return the phone call. So i called the louisiana number that was left and a little young voice answered the phone. I asked, is this tailor . A little young voice said, is this robert neighbor . The only person who calls me robert is my mom and this was not my mom. She went on to say she was thinking of committing suicide and she went on you tube ...

24 7 has people looking at how do we respect each other as human beings and understand our differences and embrace those and be a community of care. I think a very practical thing, too, is that there somehow be established an adult that kids will trust or young people will trust. When we started out with lgbt sensitivity that was one of the things because a push back from the school district, well, thats going to cost money. But we found teachers, we started with elementary and went up to middle...

Maybe somebody loves me. Im always touched by that. Some day bullying will be something of the past. I also wanted to say we need to work and i see representatives here of cities and counties because those same children are on sports teams under the city rec department, they are receiving services and they are in programs with the county and so having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. So i thought id mention that. The other thing that we are moving t...

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