senator thank you, senator : ayotte. while we're quick on this subject, apparently only 10,000 out of the 210,000 population participating in that re-entry program, could you quickly describe, both of you? it sounds like a very successful program. why aren't more people engaged in it? senator johnson: in total we reached 45,000 prisoners every year. director samuels: if it's in references to the vocational training programs, we only have a limited number of opportunities that we could provide based on the number of inmates in our system. and that goes back to the crowding with increased crowding. you have waiting lists in the federal prison system no different than any other system. and the goal is to try to push as many of these inmates through and as we complete classes we bring more, you know individuals in for participation. senator johnson: inspector general? inspector general horowitz: there are limited resources meaning a limited number of classes. senator johnson: senator booker. senator booker: director samuels,

senator ayotte -- >> thank you. i want to thank chairman alexander as well for his focus on this issue. i know many members of this committee have already become cosponsors of our bill and have been really does on this issue. we are appreciative of your attention today. i'm deeply honored to be here with my colleagues and this has been an important process of continuing to seek feedback on making sure we are looking at the best practices that occur around the country and also solving some of the worst problems we have seen and inconsistencies we cap seen around the country so thank you all for your leadership on this. i think this is an example of how members of both parties can work together when you see the strong bipartisan support for this bill and also the strong bipartisan message that this hearing sense today -- that we all appreciate that every student deserves a safe environment on campus so that students can focus on learning instead of being victims of crime or feeling they have to be in fear. that is rea

senator ayotte: thank you. i wanted to ask you, one of the things we are saying -- i saw this when i was ag as well. we are seeing on a devastating scale in our state, opioid and heroin addiction. i've been working on legislation call to the comprehensive addiction recovery act. i'm hoping we will take this issue up here -- i hope the second chance act -- there was some discussion you had about this idea of alternatives. what would you do as you think about this issue? how many people did you encounter that had addiction issues that were underlying why they were in prison? i fully agree -- we cannot arrest our way out of this. this is a public health crisis. ms. kerman: thank you. what's happening in new hampshire is also happening in ohio and all over this country in terms of huge spikes in deaths from heroin. >> it is heartbreaking. ms. kerman: it is devastating. it is fundamentally a public health question first and foremost. the intersections with the criminal justice system should be secondary as we contin

senator ayotte -- >> thank you. i want to thank chairman alexander as well for his focus on this issue. i know many members of this committee have already become cosponsors of our bill and have been really does on this issue. we are appreciative of your attention today. i'm deeply honored to be here with my colleagues and this has been an important process of continuing to seek feedback on making sure we are looking at the best practices that occur around the country and also solving some of the worst problems we have seen and inconsistencies we cap seen around the country so thank you all for your leadership on this. i think this is an example of how members of both parties can work together when you see the strong bipartisan support for this bill and also the strong bipartisan message that this hearing sense today -- that we all appreciate that every student deserves a safe environment on campus so that students can focus on learning instead of being victims of crime or feeling they have to be in fear. that is rea

senator ayotte. >> thank you, chairman. director samuels, i want to ask you about a particular prison in my state that's important especially it's in coosk county, fci burrland. and i wanted to ask about what the status is of staffing at that facility. warden tatum has indicated the facility was staffed at about 290 and there were about 1200 incarcerated individuals there. can you give me an update on levels and also what the ultimate goal is for capacity there and staffing? >> yes. thank you, senator. right now with the planned-for continued activation of the facility we are working very, very closely with the warden staff there to ensure our recruitment efforts remain on target, and we're also ensuring that as we build a population, that we're making sure that the inmate to staff ratio is where it needs to be so we don't have more inmates in a facility until we're very comfortable with the number of staff that we have at the facility. and this is continuing to progress. i know there was a concern at one period of time whe

senator ayotte. >> thank you, chairman. director samuels, i want to ask you about a particular prison in my state that's important, especially it's in coosk county, fci burrland. and i wanted to ask about what the status is of staffing at that facility. warden tatum has indicated the facility was staffed at about 290 and there were about 1200 incarcerated individuals there. can you give me an update on levels and also what the ultimate goal is for capacity there and staffing? >> yes. thank you, senator. right now with the planned-f

. >> thanks senator, senator ayotte ayotte. >> thank you, i want to thank you all of you for being here. i think like my colleague, senator highcamp, we were both attorney's general in our state before we came here to the senate. and one of the things that i worked on as an ag is reentry programs. and i'm a strong supporter of the second chance act and supporting its reauthorization but saw it from a context where even people who were incarcerated, you know serious crimes, that we did not give them any path for success going forward because they came out if they had a substance abuse problem, it was underlying issue was never dealt with. if there was mental health factors, that was not dealt with, no job, no place to live if you put yourself in those shoes and you're that person and you're put out on the street then, i dare say that all of us are on this diet wouldn't be able to put it back together. so i wanted to get your thoughts, you know, doctor, i saw that your focus is really as i understand what you're working on it would be some form of reentry program. and we saw it in our sta

kelly ayotte has taken to the senate floor talking about the scourge of heroin and next week hillarybe in new hampshire, at an open yet forum where it will also come up. it's important for these candidates, true it's a national campaign but when it comes to these state by state issues, it's very much a local issue. >> one of the great values of town halls, people bring up what's on their minds where they live. >> there was a time not so long ago when big presidential fields were winnowed by small events. early endorsements in key states, crowd sizes and earned media and the famous iowa straw poll. those days are dying. that imperfect system is they're focused on grassroots organizing, the ability to build momentum in states where voters pay attention. where your mettle is really tested being replaced by a more nationalized system where folks are jockeying to get into national polls where they're doing outrageous things like eating bacon off of machine guns. where they're saying outrageous things like the president is the equivalent of hitler and marching jews to the ovens. they're de

. >> first, kelly ayotte voted to defund planned parenthood, risk health care for millions of women.republicans want to shut down the government to block funding for planned parenthood. >> would anyone be there to process by veterans benefits? >> what would that do to social security and medicare? >> it come on the heels of the antiborgs abortion group's releasing several videos of executives discussing fetal tissue and organs. they say the recordings are misleading. how else is planned parenthood fighting back and pushing back with traction against those video sns. >> well, there's no question that it's been a tough stretch of time for planned parenthood, but it's probably feeling more confident than ever in light of the fact that opinion polls still show it is overwhelmingly popular. the funding in question and the fight that is being referred to, that only goes to contraceptive services, it's not related to this fetal tissue question, but they've used the question of whether they violated fetal tissue regulations to energize a preexisting campaign against the organization. the que

ayotte: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to talk about a public health issue that is devastating communities and families in new hampshire and throughout this country and that's prescription opioid and heroin abuse. i actually see my colleague from rhode island and i see my colleague from massachusetts here, and this is an issue where on a bipartisan basis we are focused on important legislation to address this terrible public health crisis. right now in new hampshire heroin sometimes combined with a very powerful synthetic drug called fent -- phentonol is taking lives. communities are confronting taking overdoses every single day. my good friend, manchester police chief nick willard he said recently, "i'm up to my eyes in heroin addiction." unfortunately the statistics underscore chief willard's statement. in all of 2014 manchester police seized over 1,300 grams of heroin. as of just last month manchester police had seized over 27,000 grams of heroin in 2015. that's nearly 26,000 plus more grams in just seven m

kel kel kelly ayotte. what did you think about it? >> how far we've come from president kennedy to president obama. one of the things the president did not point out when those rallies were held in iran where they were saying death to israel, down with america, right before it was sealed with ink, do you know who was at the rallies? the president of iran, president rouha rouhani. these aren't outliers with iran, it's the leadership of iran. >> he drew a distinction. it might have changed this whole -- how this measure goes forward. he drew a distinction between what the leaders are saying for effect, he says and what the iranian people feel. and that you, that is the right, those opposed to the deal who are actually bringing the world closer to war, than anything he is doing. it was the first time he put it in those terms. what did you make of that? >> what i make about it is you have to listen to what the leaders of iran are saying. and for us not to take them on their face with their state sponsor of terrorism around the world and a

and there is a great example of kelly ayotte with her small child when she was a top law enforcement officer there in new hampshire. and tell me about hillary clinton's campaign office? >> she was held hostage back in 2008 at the clinton campaign office accused the attorney general honored hampshire and she was bathing her newborn. she had the phone in her hair. there's a lot of them trying to dress the children, while she was giving information, she said she remembered thinking that this was surreal. real. thing that you have to get home, i have to go. but leaving her newborn in this way in a tense and serious situation is one great example in the book. and that includes something that is funny and interesting. >> we have some radio program that we used to do and that i thought that i had the foundation, but you could hardly hear my toddler at the time talking the entire time and i had no idea that i came into that. and, you know, i could hear in the entire time. nobody else had told me that. and i felt mortified, actually. >> i have had dogs in the background of interviews, childre

is a great example of kelly ayotte with her small child when she was a top law enforcement officer there. in new hampshire and tell me about hillary clinton's campaign office. >> guest: held hostage at a clinton campaign office back in 2008, she was the attorney general of new hampshire and she was dating her newborn and she said, check the phone in her ear and, of course, we can all visualize it is, trying to draw interest and change her child and while she was giving instructions from the highway patrol about what the situation was with this hostage taking is remembered this is so surreal. gadget called husband and said you've got to get home, i've got to go. but the juxtaposition of bathing a newborn while you're directing the state applicable in a very tense series of situations where life and death is at stake is one great example in the book but there's a lot of great examples in the book of how the integration of your career and motherhood is sometimes funny, interesting, and frustrating. >> host: ago has had one of those erma bombeck -- moments. i remember when our son was little

i wrote this morning somebody like kelly ayott in the senate has expressed concerns about climate change in the past. we're going to see environmental groups likely put pressure on her up for re-election in 2016. they want to see her not just talk about climate change, but vote to protect these rules. >> willis, texas, rob, independent caller, good morning. >> caller: hello, thank you. actually, a lot of carbon dioxide is produced to make solar panels because to purr my the silicon, 900 degrees f. they actually have a very high carbon foot print, and that needs to be told honestly with the megabucks behind them, so don't call them low carbon. the aluminum frames need a lot of electricity to make them so don't say that they are low carbon either. electricity was produced by anything other than some hydro or whatever. also, turning 40% of the corn into food when, like, 28 million people a year are malnutritioned is a major factor in their deaths from world health organizations numbers. my big complaint, but i might callously say methane is emitted from decomposing bodies, but what's an acc

senator ayotte. >> thank you. director samuels, i want to ask you about a particular prison in my state that is important, especially inco osk county, and it is fci bur land and i wanted to ask what the status is of staffing at that facility, warden tatum has indicated the facility was staffed at about 290 and there were about 1200 incarcerated individuals there. can you give me an update on levels and also what the ultimate goal is for capacity there and staffing? >> yes. thank you, senator. right now with the planned for continued activation of the facility we are working very, very closely with the warden staff to make sure our recruitment efforts remain on target and also ensuring that as we build the population that we're making sure that the inmate to staff ratio is where it needs to be so we don't have more inmates in a facility until we are comfortable with the number of staff at the facility. and this is continuing to progress. i know there was a concern at one period in time where the applicant pool was