rapid innovation will be essential. it requires collaboration month national laboratories, industry and universities your we must also leverage existing assets. for example, oak ridge national laboratory has unique facilities such as our research reactor and hot sales or the safe handling experimentation, and analysis of nuclear materials. we are working with idaho and oregon national laboratories to implement the department of energy's gateway for accelerate

innovation and nuclear initiative. which is providing easier access to the technical capabilities of the national laboratories. at timelines and economics are enrolled for new reactors technologists but they can be overcome through approaches such as increased use of modeling and simulation, advanced manufacturing techniques and development of new materials. there's a growing national interest in the department of advanced reactors and the associated fuel cycle as evidenced by the number of summit, symposia, workshops, hearings and other events focused on this. such events reflect a collective sense of urgency. national laboratories are a vital part of meeting the challenges to the future of nuclear power. a sustained r&d program is needed with clear long-term

goals. such program will retire technical regulatory risks, improve economic competitiveness, develop the next generation of scientists and engineers, established advanced facility capabilities and address the entire fuel cycle. we are prepared to help solve these compelling challenges, and we are partnering to enable rapid innovation. together, we can succeed in and bring the best of our nation's scientific understanding and engineering capabilities to bear on deploying the next generation of carbon free nuclear energy technologies. thank you for the opportunity to share my dots with the subcommittee. i request that my written testimony be made a part of the public record, and i would be happy to answer your questions. >> thanks, doctor eisenhower. dr. mckinzie, welcome. [inaudible]

>> is your microphone on? >> i will restart. chairman alexander, ranking member feinstein, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for biting the natural resources defense council with this opportunity to present our views on the future of nuclear power. we are a national nonprofit of scientists employers and of our mental advocates with over 2 million members and supporters. nrdc has been occasions nuclear energy and nuclear weapons sense of founding in 1970 and energy maintains a new program which i direct. the future of nuclear power in the united states is uncertain. it faces significant challenges. as we heard most reactors will reach the end of their licenses in the decade ahead and some art risk of near-term shut down. in addition to economic challenges, the closer nuclear power arise from safety,

security, liberation and nuclear waste. the role of nuclear power as a low carbon energy resource is being superseded by advances in energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies. only for reactors are currently under construction in the united states, for large ap1000 reactors in georgia and south carolina. one type of small modular reactor, may soon submit a license application to the nrc. so with many nuclear closures and few nuclear bills the future of nuclear energy is one now on decline. today's hearing considers what are called advances nuclear reactors and have a good impact the future of nuclear power, and government support for the research and development. to summarize my written testimony in a few words would be, be very cautious on advanced

nuclear. first, see what results we get with our current government investment in new nuclear projects, thehen you still smr. and the portly prioritizing unfinished business for nuclear. the waste issue on others. for decades nuclear scientists and engineers have sought to develop advanced nuclear design that reduced the amount of waste generated, that lower nuclear weapons proliferation risk and that improve safety. but such benefits from advanced nuclear are still theoretical your and importantly there is no evidence advanced nuclear would be economically competitive in the future. in our testimony energy respect for offers five recommendations. for the subcommittee and consideration of the government's role in advanced nuclear energy research and development. so i will go through these five recommendations.

i think is a good a lot in today's hearing, give priority to solving the nuclear waste problem. many thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel must be isolated from people and from the and by the from olympia. so our recommendations site and construct a deep geologic repository using a consent-based and science-based process before spending money on advanced nuclear. recommendation number two, wait on the construction of the ap1000 and the new scale as a more. assess the lessons that will from his projects for the city government liability and costs before looking at advanced nuclear demonstration plant a recommendation three, consistently apply a nuclear weapons proliferation test to advance nuclear designs. among the energy technology choices for the united states, nuclear power is unique in the overlaps between civilian energy technology and nuclear weapons.

the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation of nuclear power can be managed, attempts the management never eliminate it. preventing proliferation is of utmost importance to the future of nuclear energy. recommendation number four, consider the full impacts of the nuclear fuel cycle associate with advanced reactors including with severe accidents. many aspects of the whitewater reactor are still not worked out including, it hasn't come up yet at the strength of the issue of decommissioning. recommendation number five, it clear on the economic competitiveness for advanced nuclear early on. nrdc feels like history should teach us a caution, the fund advanced research and development for uneconomical designs gaming taxpayers are then responsible to require greater sums in future. to conclude, if in energy policy go for subcommittee members is to preserve the nuclear power option in the future, then we

help you maintain a healthy dose of skepticism regarding the benefits promised by advanced nuclear technology concepts that seek taxpayer support. thank you. >> thank you, dr. mckinzie. senator feinstein. >> mr. mckinzie, you know it's interesting because we have no nuclear waste policy in this country, and as such we pile up lines, i think it's 20 million a year, which are in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and yet still failed to act. you've looked at this. why does that happen? i mean, why wouldn't the industry want a nuclear waste policy? why wouldn't you want a nuclear policy, a process by which -- we debated it. we discussed it and come to the conclusion, you know, that it

has to be practical. it has to be voluntary. states have to want it. we have one in new mexico with, the people of whip around take pride in a stupid accident or even the most sophisticated agency, los alamos, contracts out the kitty litter, and the use the wrong kitty litter and it explodes. and so it's very hard for some of us to conceive of a future that's probably carried out. and now that these smr's are being proposed, i am told that the only way they are economically cost-efficient is if they are grouped together. so if you going to put 300 or

400-megawatt reactors in one place, you still have to deal with the waste. how do you do that? so i guess i've really developed a very jaundiced view about the practicality in this country and the ability, i mean, i was alerted by what senator shaheen said about the concrete. and without going into it, john deutch said that's a serious problem. now i'll go and look and find out exactly what it is. so if either of you have some comments to make, because i think our first responsibility is safety to the public, is to see that these things are secure, that the waste to secure, that they are as functional as efficient and will build as they possibly can be, cited appropriately, run scrupulously.

and that's difficult to have happen. and so it doesn't surprise me that people coming up, or companies coming up for relicensing may opt not to go ahead. >> i would come if it could be very candid on why i think industry hasn't supported a nuclear waste solution in a vigorous way, i think it would be because the current waste situation is consistent with the industry's business model. storage of a nuclear fuel mostly in white pools, some and dry cask, at reactor sites. that's fine with a business model. nrdc objects to the nrc finding that long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel in white pools, in densely packed white pools, does it represent an incredible

danger, an incredible risk. but yet that is tolerated by the regulator. so there just is inertia in the industry. >> somebody correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe you store them for five to seven years and then they should be removed from the spent fuel pool and they should be put in dry cask, hopefully transportation related dry cask so that they can be moved into a permanent waste facility, which we don't have. i can only speak for california, which i know these things are just stacking up. you know, i there's a very real danger in spent fuel pools. if the water disappears, if the pool is fragmented by an earthquake and you have all these hot rods, 3300 pile up, it's a big problem. but no one seems to care. that's what really bothers me.

nobody seems to care. >> it's a very difficult problem. be in our d.c. advocates for a consent-based and science-based approach on repositories that also includes authority at the state level for regulating radioactive materials. that's not there. that is a component of whip and we believe why can't i was able to go for in the first place but we believe that state authority in regulating radioactive materials respect to repository is a key element to conclude. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thanks to both of you. i will have just a couple of comments. i would not want people to leave this hearing without a different view being expressed about the safety of nuclear power. there's never been a death in connection with the commercial

operation of nuclear reactors in the united states since they became. there's never been a death attributable to reactors maybe since the 1950s when they begin. the only most celebrated accident we had in the united states was three-mile island in 1979, and despite years of testing of everybody in the area, no one was hurt. so based on the safety record, no other form of energy has a better safety record. the nuclear regulatory commission which has extensive council regulation has determined that the use of fuel is safely stored for many years in the places where it is which is on site. i agree that we need to move it, and i would like to get out of california, too, we have a place to put it, and the place is yucca mountain in nevada. and the law says that's where it should go.

the courts say that's what the law says. and the scientists have said that it's a fair for 1 million years. and yucca mountain is large enough to accept all the used nuclear fuel that we have stored on site in the united states today. so we have a stalemate in the congress. the reason we haven't passed the legislation senator feinstein and i would like to ask is because we take the position that we should move ahead on all tracks at once, and if we get stuck on one we should still, namely yucca, we should continue to move on the others. some of those who strong support yucca mountain say if you don't move on yucca, you will not no one anything. we've got to solve that. that's our responsibility really. the help of others would support a position, that's true, but that's our responsibility to work out. we will continue to try to do

that. dr. icennour, maybe one or two questions. you heard the testimony about the proposal for to advanced reactors to be licensed and ready for construction in the 2030s from the report. do you think the goal is achievable? if so what do you think it will take to accomplish it? >> yes, senator. i do believe that is achievable. and one of things i reflect on. i like history also, as senator feinstein said, and when i drive into oak ridge national laboratory, i drive past the reactor. that's a lesson in history of what this country can do. a reactor that was built in nine months, went critical in november 1943. that just reminds me of what we can do when we decide to do something. and so the question is how do we get there?

we have to, first of all, decide to do it and move forward, much like mr. deutch was saying. we have to decide where going to do this. we have to set clear goals. we have to have focused effort, focused r&d that will help move us along the way. and it will take a public-private partnership to do this. and then the final element i would add is, along the way we have to continue to work with nrc to have the appropriate regulatory framework in place. >> dr. icennour, you talked about the compute at oak ridge and the were you doing on modeling and simulation. as we talk about realizing -- relicensing, taking from 40 years to 60 years are taking some of the existing reactors from 60 years to eight years, which the nuclear regulatory commission is considering, how

can the supercomputers of you work with help with determining whether it's safe and appropriate to do that or not? >> one example of that, senator, of course is the consortium for advanced simulation of white -- light water reactors which has developed a very high fidelity model of a nuclear reactor. we are able to understand that very clearly what's happening with the reactor and as changes occur. and so it's the use of advanced modeling simulation coupled with experimental data that can help enable the understanding and helping form the basis for moving forward for life extensions. >> dr. mckinzie, you work for a well recognized group, the national resources defense council. i would assume you and the

council are concerned about climate change. >> yes, we are. >> dr. doolittle said it was unanimously to take action by 2030 we wouldn't have nuclear power option into united states so we would lose 20% of our electricity and 60% of our carbon free electricity. do you think that helps us deal with climate change? >> i would, i question the 2030 as a cliff or all of the power suddenly turns off. it would be more like a ramp down in power as different units reach different ages spirit but his testimony unanimously by a committee is if we haven't acted by 2030, the option would be gone. which i guess means by then we would not wait to continue it as over the next 20 years the rest of the reactors closed. >> addressing climate change is a critical problem that requires a transformation in how our country, how the world generates

and consumes energy. into united states right now we have a mix of -- >> wait a minute. my question is, do you think that it helps deal with climate change to lose the nuclear option by 2030, as his task force in animals is said would have? >> i'm a skeptic that nuclear will be able to deliver the energy, the low carbon energy that we have. >> today it produces 60% of our carbon free electricity. >> but it has an uncertain future. >> well but, how much of our carbon electricity future does our wind power produced at a? >> wind power produces less but renewable energy, energy efficiency, it is really an incredible advances recently and joint itself as a low-cost option that nuclear for

addressing climate change. >> so you would be comfortable with losing the nuclear option in terms of our country's ability to deal with climate change? >> i am uncomfortable with unresolved problems for nuclear energy companies solve problems. i believe that pragmatically nuclear will continue at a lower level into the future. i don't imagine it vanishing. we have the ap1000 reactors under construction. so i think a scenario which everything is gone by 2030 is perhaps too negative for nuclear energy. i'm a skeptic that nuclear can continue at its current level. >> what would replace it? >> the department of energy's own national laboratories have seen a scenario where renewable energy can be the dominant source of clean energy. >> meaning windmills?

>> solar, wind speed today is less than 1% of our electricity. >> that's correct. >> and when is about three or 4%? >> but the recent growth has been extraordinary, and that trend we believe will continue. >> and the wind is available when the wind blows and the floor is available when the sun shines? >> there is an issue of baseload versus and non-baseload generation to contend with. i would say that the transmission grid is evolving in time and change in time and adapting to variable, a veritable generation, as well as the republic the advances in storage. i think that nuclear will probably play a role in the future. i'm not sure how large, and i do know there are long standing problems to solve first. >> so you do agree that find a way to store used nuclear fuel,

i believe it was your testimony come is urgent? >> absolutely. >> so you support yucca mountain? >> no. spent the court says the laws should assign to say it's safe for a million years. >> process of restarting the yucca mountain project would begin with the license application, and the resulting over 200 contentions, new and significant information that may actually necessitate starting from scratch in terms of the license. >> so you think we can open another repository more rapidly than we could complete yucca mountain? >> we believe that yucca mountain will likely fail. so we do need to go back to basics. >> you believe, it would fail because groups like you're still supporting it even though the site says it's safe for a million years and the law says we should do it. >> we don't believe it would be

able to get to the licensing process. >> is -- >> nrcs not party to the licensing project. modifications to yucca mountain are envisioned that would enable it to store more fuel and require things like titanium shields to prevent -- >> wait. the nuclear record for commissioncommission as does tha mountain is large enough to all of the, all of the nuclear fuel that is currently stored at the approximate 100 reactors. you disagree with that? >> i don't disagree with it. if you talk about the 77,000 tons that are stored currently. but the united states will generate again as much between now and mid century. >> right. so my view is that we should open yucca mountain, move the fuel out of california, of the places where it is an open new repositories, maybe a private

repository, and solve our stalemate. in any event we've had a terrific wide range of views -- views here today both from senators and expert witnesses. thank you both so much for being part of our discussion. got the wrong page. the hearing record will remain open for five days. all statements submitted by witnesses and centers will be included in the record. the subcommittee requests all responses for the record be provided within 30 days of receipt. if either of you something you would like for us to consider that you didn't have a chance to say today, or when you go home you wish that said, if you will send it to us we will distribute it to the other senators. we thank you for taking your time to be your. the subcommittee stands adjourned. [inaudible conversations]

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[inaudible conversations] >> as soon as japan and germany started closing nuclear power plants, factories truly at the tennessee go to build their plants. electricity prices in germany have gone through the roof because they've close the nuclear power plants. and for big manufacturing country come if you want to create jobs, you don't need power just for the sunshine and the wind to blow. you need it all the time. >> would you support a carbon tax or a technology neutral tax? >> i'm not ready to do that yet. i do want to see a nuclear power treated equally with every other

form of carbon free electricity. particularly since it produces reliable base load power and it produces 60% of all the power we have to. i'm glad to see that some of those who care the most about climate change like senator whitehouse have come around to the position that it makes absolute no sense to close nuclear reactors. if you care about climate change. because climate change is caused by carbon and nuclear power plants produce 60% of our carbon free electricity. ..

>> thank you all very much. welcome to congress. [cheers and applause] next come a panel discussion gun violence, campus safety and improving relations between law enforcement students. this is part of the national historically black colleges and universities national conference. it is about an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please log onto the stage are education and justice urging that god between law enforcement and the hbcu community panel. please welcome our panelists kalvin hodnett, advisor for

public safety, depart in a justice on detail to the fbi. [applause] 's please welcome dr. nancy rodriguez, director of the national institute of justice. [applause] please welcome curtis johnson, president of the hbcu law enforced in executives and administrators. [applause] please welcome catherine trahan bevan, assistant secretary for civil rights u.s. department of education. [applause] please welcome the facilitator, dark or michael sorrell, facilitator of all clinton college.

[cheers and applause] >> i think our panelists can have a seat. i was tempted to have been due to slow things down in a, but that seems a little harsh. we have a tradition of paul quinn college where they greet everyone by saying good morning. so i realize not all of you are quinn i, that we are one big happy family this morning. good morning, family. let's do a little bit better. i didn't hear the people in the back. good morning, family. was the attorney general amazing? [applause] i haven't had the privilege of listening to her in person before. i knew she was a sister of incredible ability, but as she sat and went through her remarks, i realize she took

every single point that i wanted to make and set it 10 times better than i could've said it did so i'm just going to tip my hat and be amazed at your eloquence and her passion because i think that's what we need in difficult times like these. so i am particularly proud to be here this morning because i am part of a group of hbcu president and are working on the issue of gun violence in our community. we wrote a letter to america about our view on what was going on and about addressing the pain that her students felt because the reality of it is the folks that are being traumatized, and they are ours events. and if they are not our students, our students know these men and women.

and if our students don't know these men and women, some of them know they come in the same community. they have parents. they have brothers and sisters and uncles and cousins who have been impressed in. we live with the reality of the prison system in our schools every day and to ignore the basic case would just be unrealistic. so we are thrilled to have this discussion because this is a timely discussion. as the attorney general said, this is the issue of our day and i am proud of ours lives. in fact, are the hbcu all starts here or are they still at the white house? they are on their way? when they get here, my hbcu autostart, please make sure you let her know that we try to recognize them because i don't

want them protesting me, okay? i am going to start and get on with the business of this morning. our first speaker is kathryn hodnett. i loved each of the speakers to introduce themselves. if you do so, when you get done, just pass the microphone élan or activate the michael long. we will start with mainstream pics. [inaudible] >> it's really such a pleasure for me to get to be with all of you and with my friend and colleagues on the panel. i am kathryn lhamon, i enforce federal civil rights arts in schools, both in institutions of higher education and in our k-12 system. our three major areas of focus on our race, sex and his ability and we are at newly engaged in

the work of making sure that all of our student led the promise that the attorney general talked about. actually experience in school, respect for their persons, opportunity to learn and the ability of the platform to realize dreams. it is such a pleasure to be with all of you doing that work every day who are in partner with us to make sure students have the opportunity and i'm looking forward to the conversation. >> thank you. >> good morning, everybody. curtis johnson, current president for hbcu and i represent all of the chiefs and security direct heirs of all of our great institutions nationwide. it is a great honor and privilege for me to sit before this body as we done some good work over the last couple years. i am thrilled with my colleagues and i harassed on a regular basis on behalf of first event

to have this discussion. i think we've kind of started off the ball rolling and a couple areas the attorney general kind of talked about briefly. we brought students and she's to howard university in august to have a conversation about reaching the gap between law enforcement and campus communities. it's a very spirited conversation, but we wanted to make sure it was an honest conversation so we started the day before with the teambuilding process to allow everyone to take freely. which is specifically not to include the press to make sure that folks can talk from the heart because he really wanted to basically get to the root cause of some of these issues at hand. the white paper was completed and released yesterday and i forwarded out to the chiefs for for them to have an opportunity to take a look at it into this event so they would have an opportunity to look at it. it's available as we speak of

the national center for public safety website so everyone in the nation can have an opportunity to see it. puerto rico from doing that piece of it? we push the agenda forward because we want it to be that organization not only to have a conversation but lead the nation and trying to put that out as far as healing communities throughout the country. we are taking a few steps to get us on the right path but i wanted to hbcu family community to be the catalyst to get the irony. i'm very happy to be here to have this conversation today and i'll pass it along. >> mnc rodriquez, direct your other science agency within the department of justice on this wonderful to get a chance to hear the attorney general of the united states as director. we are responsible for supporting and investing in high-quality rigorous research that really is geared to prevent

crime on the criminal justice system. we support areas and an array of important issues all the way from violence prevention, school safety, human trafficking, radicalization to grant extremism. for insect science. drugs and crime, gun violence and every component within the criminal justice system including of course policing. we are certainly very committed to the reach of science and since my arrival at an ij, we've created different mechanisms to support young scholars, to support early career investigators graduates to attend who i have to say i'm more motivated, more skilled than ever before. i think getting them exposed to the important work that we as

scientists can do to advance the criminal justice system is so important. we support scholars in an array of disciplines from biology, chemistry, engineering, sociology, psychology and i certainly hope that our discussion is one that not only exposes you to this various opportunities for your faculty and student, but also one that has me walking away with patches trains and our relationship and is another minority serving his petitions because they do see u.s. partners in this effort. i can certainly and hope to be able to talk to little bit about what we are doing for research in the area of policing to strengthen the relationship with communities and also that we are doing around school safety. it is important that congress has authorized us a significant amount of resources to invest a

school safety. taking that. >> good morning. my name is calvin hodnett, special advisor for campus public safety. it's a great day and i'm glad everyone was able to make it here today. let me just say one point. i've been at the department of justice now for 18 years. this morning the attorney general of the united states that may name for the first time in 18 years. [applause] i immediately taxed my wife. as the special advisor for campus public safety, mind main job in a regular daily basis, not just for hbcu for campuses around the companies to level the playing field. the playing field of transport exists on a lot of levels of campus. public safety.

most have sworn personnel, non-sworn personnel, contract personnel and they also seek help from municipal agencies that surround you. what happens most of the time it's a lot of information is lacking in a lot of partnerships are not president. by doing a regular basis is promote partnerships between campus and local law enforcement and throughout the other campus on persons throughout the country and also get them to work with their 56 field offices around the country. two different things meme. we try our best to work on building partnerships to take advantage of the fbi's reactive resources. 56 field office, thousands of agents had a lot of free stories to come to a campus when an issue happens there whether its chemicals bill or whether it's an active shooter situation. the other part we have is what i call proactive resources which is training that we come to your campuses and we your campuses and we talk to your campus

personnel about things such as not on the active shooter training that houses a per thread, chemicals in your campuses and other things like that. i'm open to talking about all of the different things that go throughout this conversation here. i didn't say what i thought were some of the biggest threat on our campus. most of your campuses are really blessed to be in the communities you read is the attorney general talks about, hbcus and your community was most likely built out of the community and because of that you exist in that community and have a lot of violent than other things that exist outside your walls that may not volunteer its very definition, but they still exist as students may become thick and savanna. we also worked on behalf of students to get the information out to you. your biggest threat on the campus these days are the threat of violence extremism. the people in this world and in

this land you want to take advantage of attitude and tone going on in this country now and ask you guys who are caught up in the black-white smatter and other issues going on, but also leaves their mind open and susceptible to people who come in and bring other things to them that they may not be conducive to a learning environment. the other thing as cyberthreats is the next biggest thing that most campuses are victims. those who have private universities and state universities. there are those around the world to see europe an environment as a way to move into the larger computer systems through your time. if you don't have an act to firewall and assorted things, they are using the systems to enter into his existence and ultimately federal systems. we are definitely afraid to talking about those things. we have resources in our field offices to work through all of those things. thank you.

>> we are now going to turn to our first question and catherine, it is for you. we know that students regardless of their race, origin, color, gender all deserve a safe environment for their education. maybe you can talk a little bit about the work you're doing around campus and how that factors into what we see at hbcu. >> rate, i'd like to talk about stories in each of the major areas and no spandex in the most time on violence because that has been a topic that's been very much in the news and i think it's very important for us to make sure we are actually the dinners of others promised and all of our campuses on that topic as well. i do want to touch on race discrimination and disability discrimination because those issues are less than the news and very present first demand. i'll start with the story as i

hbcu context of the resolution agreement with an alabama college we entered into now two years ago and i say that to emphasize how recent the harm to the student is. black student who is a math league happened to be sitting at the back of the bus and they were planning to go to an event that had them can't hold. she asked her coach what they would do that and the coach told her to keep her black rear end. that was not his word, but her black were arraigned on the back of the bus rosa parks. and that is not all. after school she had her peers say to her that she shouldn't drive at night because she couldn't be seen, asked her to smile so that she could be seen, called her that the girl over and over again. a hostile environment that her leaders on her campus perpetuated, that her peers inflicted on her and that her campus didn't take steps to address for her.

they have paid for counseling for her. they started in our ongoing -- subject to ongoing oversight. this is a young woman who made it to college. this is a young woman who's doing the things we tell our kids to do and when she got there she was made to feel unwelcome and like she can't succeed. that's unacceptable in our society. another story and this is now from hbcu. a young man who has cerebral palsy and was accepted and can a few days before the social worker to say what supports he would need and the school saw that he has cerebral palsy and they revoked his admission. thank you for the shop. they revoked his admission. he reported back to us. we thought they must be missed again. when we called the college they doubled down and said what we usually do is take a look at the individual is the education plan a student has an high school and if we can't support the student

we don't admit the student. wow, thank you. so i'm awful. that young man has not been admitted to the college. he's doing just fine and thriving and they have agreed to submit to my office for three years everest dude they reject so we can evaluate whether the student should have been rejected or should be admitted. they had to radically change their practices, but this is a place that should be welcoming for all students regardless of who they are and prepare to nurture and support them and profoundly missed our nation celebrates protection first to be a sip and i want to turn to violence that hasn't been mentioned in the news a lot. i need you to know that the fact that we see in our investigation are truly appalling and they range from a whole variety of the kinds of ways violence can touch her young people's lives

but because we talk here about the relationship to law enforcement, i want to tell you one particular agreement with the campus of the university to system from the summer and which a young woman reported to campus that she had been by a campus security officer in the campus security vehicle appeared and the school didn't investigate. they sent the issue to the criminal justice system. that officer entered a plea agreement that required that officers no longer to be a campus security officer which is goodness but there was sufficient evidence that his behavior was not an outlier, that his plea agreement required him to report another incidence from other officers at the campus and the title ix coordinator at the school did not investigate at the school because she didn't think there was evidence and the other student was sent safe. she received a report from the county police investigating another officer and should never open that report. she did not look at it.

that tells you we need to change our practices. i'm grateful the criminal justice system operated as it should have. i am deeply distressed that the students at the school didn't receive the support they needed from their school to make sure that they would be safe and no others do and would suffer with the young woman reported had done at the school i say that to you to say please make sure you operate a campus that communicates to your students that every student is valued, do you expect every student you admit to succeed and that you will be there to make sure others can enjoy the educational opportunity that our nation's laws promise to advance. so i will stop there. [applause] >> catherine, i just want to follow up on something you said. one of the things that we experience is our students come

to life the products of dysfunctional environment. one of the things we discovered on our campus was we had a tremendous amount of undiagnosed mental illness. don't act like we don't all have a diagnosed mental illnesses on our camp is. the reality of it is we don't talk about it. it's the dirty little secret in the background. uncle saul is just a bit off. he's not off. there are issues there. how would you recommend that the institutions begin to address that the students are coming to them, the products of dysfunctional behavior that is a social but was normalized to know that in context and you literally have to teach them a new way of operating. are there any resources that the department offers a recent sessions that she might have

because i've spoken to enough of my colleagues to know that this isn't just an isolated incident. >> i think there's a couple of levels to the question. how do we serve the student who has the undiagnosed mental illness and who needs to be supported. our legal requirements or if you have reason to know that a student needs accommodation on your campus community to evaluate and you need to provide it. where there is a student who seems a little off course indicating a need for help, you need to be sure that student has access to information about how the last quarter, who to go to to seek that help and where your administrators and faculty have reason to know that they are able to reach out and offer resources to that student as well. there is hardly serve the student has effectively asking for help. and then there is what do we do on our campuses and how do we assimilate the students who come to us from their homeland, from

their k-12 at her and says that precede their time on campus. the reality is they don't violent environments are beginning to turn 18. these are experiences that are student lived before coming and sometimes experience once they get there. we need to make sure we are communicating to worse events at day one before that common every day when they're at school the environment that we want them to thrive and at the school. so we encourage his event of values. we encourage you to communication about who you are and what's acceptable under campuses and active encouragement of sharing, thriving, differences of viewpoint so that people can express their ideas, share their loss and mourning the campus about how to interact with others in a respectful way that is appropriate on this campus.

we in the department of education have recently released a set of a toolkit and a set of guidance for k-12 schools about fire and ways to ensure students are learning before they get to college. the appropriate ways to interact with each other and appropriate ways to be a good bystander and stand up for other need it and ways for schools to focus on trauma so that they can respond to who students are as they get there. we are trying to address the issue before your students come to you and we strongly encourage you to recognize you will have an influx of new student every year. you will have a change campus climate every year and so you need to be every year throughout the year responsive to who you have in your campus and how you can make sure those given continue. >> thank you. i would like to add that it would be helpful from the department's good if there were

several resources that could help the institutions engage in more preventative measures. just an in-depth opportunities for training for the students on the way and that would allow us to be more successful. we appreciate all the support you guys give in that area. we will let you off the hot seat now. curtis, you are the president as he stated hbcu about eea and you guys have a tough job and i know that you are working across the institutions to do this, but maybe you could share with us some of the trends you are seen in terms of community policing externally and community policing internally that really help alleviate some of the issues that we've seen outside of our campuses. >> so over the last couple years

and i will start externally for us. community relations is a huge deal for us at this particular juncture. if we started a few years back, i would say community issues is not at the forefront of the conversation that we would have marijuana wise that the laws across the country have changed for you have states where students come to campuses from state their it was legal. they find themselves in a trip back for the most part because they are thinking what i did at home i can do here. subsequently that involves them being charged with ms. demeanor charges. if i've got a student spending $165,000 a year and he or she goes to get a job, they can't because they've got the misdemeanor marijuana charge on the record. a lot around the country including where i work at how they program in place where i work with the city and the local judge in district judge is to

seal it in clear records when students have paid their debt to society, but we need those folks to work and be able to be employable and get up so that is part of an initiative from a community standpoint as far as outreach. the thing now that you are seeking before but dirty to talk about relationships and communities with these guns on campus and gun violence on campus. i get a call every time we have been in bed for the phone calls. curtis, what happened on this particular campus? i can tell you it is time over the last five years there's though bore you with the incidents where students would have bb guns on campus or something of that nature. over the last five years i can tell you now or we may have found one real good i will find time to year. i am not only seen guns now, and see the thought of shotguns,

ak-47s and some of our campuses were with better campus safety personnel. you've got an unnamed security officer in a campuswide ak-47s e-news. they are at an extreme disadvantage in that creates a hostile work environment not only for the officers at the campus community as a whole. so the risk factor goes up. the deal now is hardly mitigate these issues from an internal parts acted but from an external perspective. we've taken a forward approach approximately two years ago when i started to reach out to kathryn and her team and i harass kathryn on a regular basis as it pertains to issues of sexual assault. it's kind of a mixed bag when we look at a student who may have been accused because they will be adjudicated to the student affairs. they are going through a law-enforcement process as well and a title ix investigation and

on the backside of it is from a point of perspective is that all three of those investigation can be discoverable to use against how does that work into that is especially if it's a case of dumbfounded. now you've got a slanderous opportunity for somebody that may not have done it. we have the cases can be very sensitive to those issues where we have a sexual assault and have to move forward. what happens within the them screams. how does that affect students in his career if he does so she moves forward when we have that now a different genders. we have to be cautious that we are moving forward with those issues. two years ago we started with a focus group discussion in atlanta with the national centers for campus public safety that centered around bringing a campus safety chiefs to the

table to start having these conversations. from that particular movement along with some of the other things for community policing standpoint, we move into the vermont area doing a conference in 2015 is national centers community policing. these are some of things have got to get that are at dealing with. campuses have to get better from the first active but what we really need to ensure that our campuses are safe. let's be real here. we are a call center for most campuses when you talk about police departments and security departments. we are not a profit generating area, but i can guarantee you the first time you have a shooting on your campus in your home at dips 200 students in the first 48 hours, you understand the need to invest in our campus safety process. when you have to feel the sun cause for parents and i can tell you september 27, 2012 when i

lost eric olivia on her campus to black on black violence, a young man walked up with a glock 40 handgun with an extended clip on his pistol and shot the young man returns. to respond to that and am looking at my campus and then thinking we look like virginia tech. at that emergency responders. i'm one of the first people on the scene and you have to forgive us. most of your chiefs when we get the information, we don't care how we address when we get there. i got it done, flip a lot and they bought groove blast in that kind trying to get to mehsud on the sidewalk who was bleeding out. i said i had to secure my campus and make sure the rest of the community is safe. how in the world and i going to pick up his phone to call his mom and dad? if you've never had to pick up the phone and call the parent to basically tell them that you just lost a child in their care,

god bless you. for those of you who have had the opportunity to go through that, you understand where i am out with that. the 109th schools that make up the hbcu family i see approximately 60% of our campuses on an annual basis. i don't see the other 41st time. the only way we get better the way our organization was created as in 1999 we have a handful of great that it limited who decided we need to be able to talk about those issues that are central to hbcu families and so this organization was created. very small and very humble and beginning to where we are today and we have a voice on a national pop for now they're basically we are trying to make sure the vision is fair. we want to make sure we are actively involved. >> you know, let me say being out of school in texas for our

legislature felt that it was okay to perhaps campus kerry because, you know, english professor is so threatening to the student i.d. it is concerning because you don't want you campuses to turn into the wild wild west. you don't want it to be a shoot out and so it is comforting to know the work you all are doing. but it is an issue that there is no perfect answer. >> to that point that concealed carry. he came -- a great dude that concealed carry permit realized he had a weapon on the side and ended to play set in a secure location until my performances done. he stuck it in what he perceived to be his friends back pack.

come back after the performance is done, check so that back where he thought he put the gun, the gun is gone. another student an hour later we are led i've got a gun in my bad. so opposed to bringing it to campus safety, she thought it was cute to buy two ounces of marijuana and a couple hundred dollars for the gun so she sells it to a local drug dealer. you may say that to say this. my perceptions on gun as laptops, cell phones, things of that nature that come up missing on a daily basis would make people think that gunsmoke, missing on your campus. if we are saying we are institutions of higher learning, what role in higher learning do guns play on a college campus? [applause] one word also to finalize, there will be the 13th, 14th and 15th of november will be an

open carry forward at mckinney mckinney -- i can't think of the name of the school right now. i will get that out to the body on his deal. or open carry. we have an opportunity. baton rouge will be achieved to jocelyn johns and who will participate in that and we also have the college chief, edna drake will also be participating in that forum to have these passions to basically help shape policy as we move forward with this critical issue. >> thank you for your work on not. we will take this in a split he later direction. then dave. >> no pressure. i know that and are just making significant invest in surround will safety and just is.

perhaps you'd like to share with the audience which are research is finding. >> we have for years police in science and have done so incrementally given again different focuses that have come to our attention. it was certainly the president's saying allocated a similarly identified the six pillars were research recommendations were proposed and of course encouraged the academy to be responsive to them. so last year we went ahead and released a solicitation in direct response to that report and i'm happy to say that we were able to support over $6 million of research in this space. the project that we supported i

think are so vital today. for example, we funded one particular study that the researcher at harvard university will be looking at the million oversight and the impact that they are actually having unaccountability and department of justice intervention which again you may think we have added a fine how doj and interventions, consent decrees and assays fair was in place. and we don't. one of the things i want to make sure we can say that scientists that the evidence base in the area of policing our rather sense. they don't have the guidance to local state on how to proceed

and what policies or practices are in the best interest of their community. i can't understate that enough. that is significant because for us it means that we are often blast conveying to the field that we are investing in these areas and for example the infusion of technology within my first name. we have wanted body warmed untransformed cameras and police officers have the tools they need and it is a tool and we are unable to come back with the impact this is going to have unpoliced apart and on use of force, on strengthening relationships with community. so yes, the tool is out there

yet the impact is still unknown. i can talk about safety and wellness and obviously, we too recognize that keeping communities safe is our primary object does. at the same time, we have officer involved shooting and is this that are rather complex, which means that we need to think about the actual individual may be who is hurt or wounded, but the dye added that exists between that officer and that citizen. that research does not exist. so when i say that the evidence base is rather thin, i hope you see the need to continue to invest in these important areas. we also of course there are comprehensive school safety initiative and our partnerships with other federal agencies like

the office of violence against women and cdc are ensuring that we identify and treat the evidence base to ensure that our k-12 and colleges and university campuses are safe. $75 million each year since 2014 goes directly to research in this area. this research is helping to bring together not only criminologists educators, ma enforcement and behavior help specialist to identify the comprehensive strategies to prevent violence. we recognize that early childhood trauma plays a significant role in the pathways of individuals who answer your institutions are those who unfortunately don't have that opportunity. we have invested in a longitudinal daddy that is tracking individuals in high school but campuses are not.

what warriors. we see of course can only be compounded given other stressors in life, how that shapes individual trajectories. so when i think of what you can do for us as a science agency within the department of justice, i would encourage you to have your faculty is too dense reach out to the criminal justice agencies in your community sendoff for yours court annexed her teeth. i traveled throughout the country and visited jails. i visit local police departments. i visit presents. when i ask what you need from the community, what do you need for the scientific community and the academy, i am told repeatedly regardless of which study that they wish they had partners to help them understand the capacity of their data and

inform their policies and is. they need that. they want that, so i hope that you take that challenge and encourage and find ways to bridge with these local state and federal criminal justice agencies. i also hope that you become aware of the many opportunities that we have support research in this space. we have opportunities for individuals interested in all disciplines. there is room for you. we have a table outside, which i hope you stop by and see. but an ij.gov i think will provide you with the many programs and solicitations we have for a graduate student or young scholars had early career investigators who have never been through the process i kept

hearing from young faculties is that i can't compete with alex. i can't compete with the bigger is to choose. i can't compete with my mentor for funding. i created a specific solicitation to support them in their endeavor. we have graduate fellowship opportunities in the areas of social and behavioral science is as well as spam. so please, please, if you can do anything to encourage again future scientists and help me create a pipeline, i hope that you encourage them to think about their role and how they can serve our criminal justice system in the way we try to do so every day in the department. thank you again for this opportunity. >> thank you very much. [applause] calvin, i note earlier you spoke a lot about the work you guys are doing.

maybe you could tell us some of the opportunities that there are for partnerships between your agency and the hbcu community. >> thank you. i have to jump on nancy's question a little bit to add more to that if you don't mind. one of the things that is missing not only with the fbi but also the cops office, community oriented police services. the universities in this room, some of the largest programs intercampus in criminal justice program and in those criminal justice programs i have to say that not enough hbcu are bringing ideas to the table on how to do things better. they are bringing the ideas to the table but they don't include the community that believe is the ones who really need that

information. when you have criminal justice programs, part of the responsibility of the criminal justice program is to put ideas on the table and pushed his ideas to the federal level so that they can be funded and so that they can change the way things are done. people are putting ideas on the table, but they are working. when we got a when we go to study them, they don't get studied fully because they don't work. so if you have ideas that were coming you should be bringing them to the table and add them to the discretionary process so they can be funded. there are not enough ideas in the us for us to be able to find. the fbi is all about partnership. we have over 100 campus liaison agents working with every individual campus in the country. they are visiting on the campuses, talking about the things we are able to help them with -- help you with. as i said earlier, we want to

help the ability to overcome instances in things like that that may have been on the campus that are traumatizing to your campus or active shooters to earthquakes, whatever it may be we are there to help with evidence techs and emerging the operations, all those things we are able to do, but we also want to be able to help you to be able to understand how you can work through these problems before hand. we want to be there react to it, but would rather be there before these things happen. the honest part again is a lot of your agencies, a lot of law enforced and people on your campus as curtis was saying, a lot of them are unengaged address. we are reaching out to them because i'm of them are contractors, because some of them have so many jobs they are doing on campus on top of security. a lot of them are not reaching back to us to be able to fulfill and have these partnership unique about.

so i would go home if i were you and i would say to your chief, to your campus security person what is the nature of our partnership with federal and local partners. get the answer to that question and it will really help you be able to wonders and where your campus is. i'm not just talking about the ability of a fire department to come, but the question becomes if something was to happen on campus, what is the nature of the ones that would have been to be able to really help at some point everybody becomes overwhelmed. there is no incident that happened whether it's virginia tech or k-12 or wherever, whether it was the initial responding people weren't overwhelmed fair. fair resources available from fema and other people to help with the additional thing to get you back to where you want to be. you don't want to miss any days of school. in the end you have residences to the vet had nowhere else to go. so every day that you don't have

classes that did they don't know what to do. we want to get to a point where you're getting back to what the new normal is for your agency and for your organization. we need help to build to do that and we need to partner with us to reach out to us and reach out to you. >> thank you very much. we're just about out of time. what i would like to do is give everyone maybe 30 seconds to make a closing statement and in that way we won't be egregiously over our time limit. so we will start this way and come back in. >> you start with me. i just finished talking. we are available to partner unlike his, our agents are responsible for partnering with every single campus in the united states whether you're white serving institution are black or hispanic, whatever it may be. they are supposed to be there

just like were holding her accountable. thank you so much. >> i just hope you visit and ij.the empty the resource as we have available bundled and obviously our historical investment, but also our strategic plans. we have released very strategic plans and key areas. safety, health and wellness will be releasing our plan in effect you read this plan for the next five years which have been shared with omb watch be met by department, the agency will be for holding to making which we think is. i certainly would hope you reach out. i will stick around and be available to answer any questions you have. if you are unsure about how to connect with your local state criminal justice agencies or maybe there are faculty for

initiatives at your institution that you think certainly may be ideally fit for our awareness, please let me know. we certainly want to be as informed as possible on an array of issues that you're addressing this in our criminal justice system. thank you so much for the invitation and it's been a pleasure until next time. >> real quick on my end, those institutions who have not been actively involved at the "education and justice" level, i really need to see your cheese, security yours. i want to thank publicly the federal agencies as we should have four or five years ago to the agencies with the training at the national level. the fbi of course has done a wonderful job. katherine and her team have done a tremendous job. the list goes on. there's two people.

one that i don't see job the piece. probably you're not ago, two years ago they did a personal mission to ensure we have access to the things that the national level we needed to house. my hats off to jay. the last thing i will leave you with this continued to pray for hbcu as we will lay to rest on thursday retired chief we were caused if hampton university who lost his life last wednesday. we are going to go down and love on his family and make sure he did it at home. >> i really want to emphasize that you are such unbelievably strong leaders in your campuses. her students are looking to you. please be the change. please send the tone you want for your campus and make sure you communicate that you support them and i'll be there for them and this is the campus they deserve of their dreams.

i really appreciate the leadership you engage in everyday. i hope you set the tone that you don't wait for the next moment of horror that brings on gaps of the type we heard today and instead you are campuses that you would want your own children to thrive on. >> so we would like to see thank you to the audience for joining us this morning. can we have a great round of applause were panelists? [applause] and in closing, let me say this. this is the issue of our time. you heard the attorney general tell us this. inherently we all know this. what comes into conflict at times is how we respond to the issue of our time. this is not the moment for the separation between ours event enters us. we must work to let deadly. working collectively means we must get their issues the audience which it deserves.

it won't be comfortable. they will say things that may make you feel at ease the end may not tap into the truest best version of yourself. you must fight back because this is one that we can win together but we cannot win apart and we need to work together. this is our moment. we cannot stand on the sidelines. we will be judged negatively from an historical event if we do not get this right. i would encourage all of us to sit down with theirs event, listen and give audience to their pain and concern and find a way to work together. on behalf -- i guess you are here to do that on behalf staff. [laughter] let me just say thank you and i am now going to give way to the executive director so that i will be invited back.

[laughter] [applause] >> how about pastor sorrell, family? amen, amen. thank you also match. again to the panel, to michael, we appreciate the conversation as he has encouraged us. these are our issues to lean into the part of the conversation. her attorney general was amazing this morning and we are fired up about this conversation and we hope you'll continue conversations as he moved to the breakout sessions right now and then we welcomed him back here for our legacy munching deer from mike moria from the urban league who will bring a powerful message to us as well. please continue to enjoy the conference. thank you. [inaudible conversations]

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of students in american history. particularly the history of its african descended people. >> my uncle formed this impression from watching cinema, western specifically where they gathered together, exchanged a few words and never understood. at one point they tear each other down and start shooting. that is what americans will do to you, shoot you if you look them in the eye. >> the u.s. senate is about to gavel in on this thursday.

senators work on a bill of the state shared revenue for oil and gas leases targeted towards the offshore oil drilling. they both advanced the dust settled from the eastern today. live to the senate floor here on espn2. -- c-span2. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal god, the source of our joy, in this season of gratitude, thank you for your sustaining power and unsurpassed greatness. lord,

we borrow our heartbeats from you each day. search the hearts of our lawmakers guiding them with your wisdom and empowering them with your might. in all their labors, may they work for your glory. help them to stand true to what they believe. maintaining a clear conscience in all they think, do, and say. may they acknowledge you in every area of their lives, knowing that you will direct their path. supply all their needs from your

glorious riches. we pray in your gracious name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: it's been a busy and exciting week as we welcome new members, assembled our leadership teams for the 115th

congress and gotten to work on important issues. today we'll have an opportunity to take up a bill that's particularly important for gulf coast states like louisiana. senator cassidy has been a leader on this issue, and i appreciate the work he's done to bring this measure up for a vote. sometime this session we'll also take up an extension of the iran sanctions extension act which passed the house overwhelmingly. this bipartisan bill will provide the basis for any sanctions which may be reimposed on iran. it's critical given the belligerent behavior exhibited by tehran since the signing of the joint comprehensive plan of action. i expect we'll pass it on an overwhelming bipartisan basis here as well. discussions are also ongoing about how to fund the government and for how long. as i noted yesterday. i'll have more to say on that issue as more details are available.

so we've all got some work to do. let's work together to finish up the business of this congress as we begin looking forward to the next. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: two days ago i came here and called upon our president-elect to rise to the dignity of his office. i called upon mr. trump to take responsibility for his rhetoric and his actions to work to heal the wounds that he created. our president-elect has chosen to do none of the things to this point. meanwhile acts of hate and intimidation continue to occur across america. on tuesday i said the southern poverty law center reported 1,500 hate crimes since the

election. as of yesterday -- that was wednesday -- that number jumped 437, a 40% increase in two days. that's startling. some of the instances, mr. president, i will ask this be entered into the record that little bit, but i'm only going to pick a few of these. for example, in michigan, a latino family woke to find that somebody used boxes to form a wall blocking their draif way. the perpetrators left behind graffiti denigrating mexican americans and praised donald trump for taking back america. in tennessee two men returned home to find a homophobic note. using gay slurs the message told the men to go p back where they came from. a folding knife with a picture of donald trump on the handle was stabbed through the paper. at a high school in missouri, a 15-year-old african-american student was burned with a hot glue gun and told she didn't belong in america.

another african-american student at that same school was told by a white student -- quote -- "are you ready to get back on the boat now that trump is president?" close quote. this morning "the washington post" editorial board related the story of a student at baylor listen to this. the morning after donald trump's election as president, a student at baylor had a nasty, hate-filled encounter on her way to work. she works -- and then after that went to school. she was walking through the campus. a native of zambia, she was called the n word by another student who shoved her off the sidewalk and said he was just trying to make america great again. the signature slogan on mr. trump's campaign was make america great again. what is perhaps most appalling about the incident is that it's not isolated. as i said, mr. president, i picked just a few, a few simple examples.

but in this 17-page document, i ask now it be made part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: there are hundreds of the same kinds of things happening as we speak around the country. these are, mr. president, sickening acts of hate, prejudice, and simple meanness. and they need to be stopped. "the washington post" editorial board called on donald trump to do everything he can to bring these attacks to an end. here's what they said -- and i quote -- "mr. trump should pay heed. these hateful acts are the work of his supporters but they have been emboldened by the ugly rhetoric of his presidential campaign. it is his responsibility is not as the campaign manager

foolishly suggested president obama or hillary clinton's job to do this. he needs to do as much as he can to discourage such actions. granted, his appointment of media mogul stee van ban none to the top -- stephen bannon to the top white house job makes it more difficult. so does his mild response when asked about the slurs on sunday's "60 minutes" interview. he didn't say much when pressed to do so. in his victory speech, mr. trump promised to be a president for all americans. his wife said she wants to make fighting hate, bullying her main priority of the first lady. they need not wait until inauguration day to start living up to those promises. 17 pages of these hate-filled, awful things is too much. there's only one person who can bring a stop to that quickly, and that's the president-elect. our nation is looking at donald

trump. for the sake of the american people i hope he will. i ask consent these be made part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i see no one on the floor so i would ask the chair to tell us what the business of the day will be. the presiding officer: under the previous order the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to s. 3110 which the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 543, s. 3110, a bill to provide for reforms of the administration of the outer continental shelf of the united states, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:

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a senator: i ask unanimous consent further proceedings under the quorum call are sus spoanldzed. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: mr. president, seven years ago this week, in a cell inside the prison that once held the political opponents of the czars and soviets, sergey was murdered defying vladimir putin's russia. many americans are not familiar with the life of this russian patriot but it was dedicated to, it was one life dedicated to and ultimately sacrificed for