Page 32 - Current Assessment News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

You mentioned this earlier, but i think another issue for this generation is the barrier to entry for running for office or participating in the elected political life. And you know, from my experience this generation looks at life differently than others, so running for office or the hill may not be the best way to participate in service. I would be interested to hear what you have to say. What are the Biggest Barriers to participate in politics and why are young people not doing it more . People in Political Office often times today we look at them bickering over things that they dont think ...

Screeria nigeria. Secretaries lay out Agency Priorities at this Years National league of cities conference. Next, the Senate Judiciary Committee Hears testimony from sally yates on her nomination to be the next Deputy Attorney general. She currently serves as the acting Deputy Attorney general and was nominated by president obama last january. Topics addressed included mandatory minimum sentencing, the president S Immigration executive order human sex trafficking, and countering violent extremism. This runs an hour and 50 minutes. Out of respect for congressman lewis and senator isaacson and i...

Expenditure of our federal resources in incarceration and the i think the average on mandatory minimums is about 11year incarceration and so without going too far, are you suggesting that those resources could be applied in other ways to make us safer . Absolutely. As ive looked at the spending of the department of justice and seeing that the bureau of prisons each and every year takes up a larger and larger percentage of the department of justice budget, that money has to come from somewhere and where its been coming from is money for agents and prosecutors and also critically importantly mon...

Resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. The bureau of prisons now takes up almost twothirds of the departments budget. Thats really untenable and unsustainable. So i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. But we but that we need to use that tool effectively. Senator blumenthal . Thanks, mr. Chairman. At the outset id like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. Yates nomi...

Numbers that might be interesting, contributions from people, and he said see if there are particularly any from castro and cuba from mcgovern, but they were looking for anything obrien might have used to embarrass him. Heres one of the interesting things about watergate. So much credence is given to the fact that how could they be so stupid and foolish . Well, they were just that stupid and foolish. And they cant believe it z s ieekognu but 5 2 it was apparent, readily apparent, within you know, immediately. First you look at what necessary did at the ellsburg breakin. It was stupid and bungl...