i want to first introduced daniel webster and jan vernick, co-editors of the book will make this event possible, i also pleased that dr. coleen berry from department of health policy management at the bluebird school, who also has a very important survey findings to share, will also be on the podium with me. i will turn it over to daniel webster. >> thank you very much, and thank you for your extraordinary support and leadership through this process. my colleagues at the johns hopkins center for gun policy and research and at the bloomberg school of public health are very grateful for your leadership and support. the last two days have been an amazing experience for me to bring together the best scholars, the best expertise, to grapple with and come forward with a set of recommendations that will be based on the best available research and experience. i am going to touch very briefly upon the expertise that we assembled. as president daniels alluded to, we searched far and wide and had individuals coming from foreign countries to contribute to this effort. we have criminologists, publi

. >> it's wonderful to see daniel webster students in the audience with us today. ms.fox, i did want to ask, davis and associates will do an extensive public outreach in education campaign. was there any discussion how they will reach immigrant communities? >> you'll see in the budget for the customer outreach notification plan is part of the budget. some of that the work will happen by things that davis and associates does. some of it will be pc. it will also having some partnership with community-based organizations who have a much more direct relationship with low income communities, communities of color, non-english speaking community. plus all of the educational materials we have done, will be in multiple languages. one of the things that we will be reaching out to the board over the next couple months is to also get a sense from you in your district, who are the community-based organizations that particularly reach those community that's are hardest to reach so that we're connected with them and we're partnering. make sure that everyone is informed about the

now, this is when he went to senator daniel webster for help. now, remember that i said he was a good networker, and you know that it helps to have acquaintances in high places, even as slave. and webster came to jennings' rescue, and he advanced his purchase price. he wasn't a rich man. he struck a deal whereby jennings would work in his household and pay that purchase price back at the rate of $8 a month. so finally, at the anal of 48 -- at the age of 48, paul jennings became a free man. and here's one thing he got involved with that very first full year of freedom. night, saturday; 15, april, 1848. a landing near the 7th street wharf, washington city. it was a moonless night, and that was an advantage. for the activity at the wharf was highly illegal. paul jennings played a role in the operations that led to this action and is thought to have been the black man silently observing the scene in the shadows noticed by ship captain daniel drayington. he told him he knew what was going on, but the captain need have no apprehension on his account.

i want to say thank you to the daniel webster school. kids, you guys want to say hi? >> hi. >> thanks for coming by. ms.campbell? >> as you point out on page 4-3 of our report, when the board moving forward with c.c.a. in september 2012, they did amend a resolution requiring undertake extensive outreach of the program. these funds, the $1.4 million is suppose to address that issue. we do provide a budget. the $1.4 million will go to the outreach campaign contract with davis which is competitively selected. >> anymore questions. we'll do this in budget committee. i'll make a motion to -- thank you very much supervisor avalos. >> at this point, i like to open this up for public comment. any members of the public wish to comment on item number four, please step forward. >> [singing]. sometimes i like to quit, the budget doesn't seem to fit. hanging around in thiscy and town. rainy budget days and pc mondays get me down. all we got the budget blues. nothing is really wrong, i want to give budget money and i give you this song and hang the city around. it's city like a lon

daniel webster, let me bring you in here.rresponsible parenting, to me, is not a way to try and tackle this problem. you can't say you have to be better parents to try to stop an adam lanza. >> right. and i just want to respond to some of the comments earlier that i think are really off the mark. the idea that if they don't have a gun they'll use something else. that's why we have a homicide rate in the united states at six times higher than other high-income countries. it's not because -- we actually -- our violent crime rates are not all that different. we don't have any real differences with mental health in terms of having more mentally ill people. we don't have kids who are more troubled or bullied or depressed. we have more guns. and that's why we have more homicides. >> actually, sir, we have number one in the u.s. -- yes, we have more guns. 88 guns per 100 people. there's no doubt about that. but we are ranked at number 28 in the world on actual homicides behind honduras, jamaica, and el salvador. it is because we all

this is when he went to senator daniel webster for help. remember he said he was a good networker and you know it helps to have acquaintances in high places, even as a slave. webster came to jennings rescue and advanced his purchase price and he wasn't a rich man. he struck a deal with jennings, whereby jennings would work in his household and pay the purchase price back at the rate of $8 a month. so finally at the age of 48, paul jennings became a free man. and here is one thing he got involved with that very first full year of freedom night saturday, 15 april 1848, a landing at the seventh street wars, washington city. it was a moonless night and that was an advantage for the activity at the wharf was highly illegal. paul jennings played a role in the operation of such satisfaction and is thought to have been the black men felt observing the scene in the shadows, noticed the ship captain daniel drayton. treatment purge the witness who told him he knew what was going on, but the cat in heat have no apprehension on his account. before the n

this is when he went to senator daniel webster for help. remember he said he was a good networker and you know it helps to have acquaintances in high places, even as a slave. webster came to jennings rescue and advanced his purchase price and he wasn't a rich man. he struck a deal with jennings, whereby jennings would work in his household and pay the purchase price back at the rate of $8 a month. so finally at the age of 48, paul jennings became a free man. and here is one thing he got involved with that very first full year of freedom night saturday, 15 april 1848, a landing at the seventh street wars, washington city. it was a moonless night and that was an advantage for the activity at the wharf was highly illegal. paul jennings played a role in the operation of such satisfaction and is thought to have been the black men felt observing the scene in the shadows, noticed the ship captain daniel drayton. treatment purge the witness who told him he knew what was going on, but the cat in heat have no apprehension on his account. before the n

you feel about him politically i think we can all agree that he's no great statesman he's not daniel webster he's not i'm not here you have friends here and so. if you if he is going to be allowed to change something that has been a fundamental part of our process since the beginning of our country no it's not true i think that the filibuster is on the constitution and it was never part of the of the senate insult until the twenty three of these are very contemporary political issues you know the republicans are in the minority and that's why we're hearing about this right now as minorities versus majorities is that yeah and pox on both their houses i mean if you can't get harry reid to do something that the majority of people i think deserve which is a majority rule then yeah you've got to say that the republicans are afraid of democracy but so are some of the leaders within the democratic party and of course what they think is when what happens when the democrats are in a minority and they want to be able to use this filibuster as well but i totally agree with you tom i mean should have be

came all over the country to attend debates, especially when great titans like henry clay and daniel webster and john c. calhoun and others were debating. imagine a much smaller senate chamber crowded with men who hated each other out with the logo. a room reeking of cigar smoke, smelling of gas from gas lamps, with spittoons scattered here and there misfitting one direction or another, and it intends, congested atmosphere with political men going mono and bono and the great editorial arena. >> henry clay and stephen douglas. but is there room for compromise? >> henry clay had them in retirement. to take charge of an attempt to create some kind of a compromise. he was known as the great compromise their for the compromise of 1820, the missouri compromise of 1833 compromise that left the country back from crisis of herself carolinas notification law. henry clay was a cramped, remarkable man and never one to say no when he was invited to be the center of political attention. he returned to washington and let the debate for seven attempting to persuade congressmen from the right and left come i

[applause] >> with that, i would like to now turn the program over to daniel webster, director of the johns hopkins center for gun policy and research. earlier i offered and we'll have many opportunities over the next two days to offer appreciation for the extraordinary energy that he and jan have exerted to insure the success of this summit. we're in for a wonderful and very provocative program that, hopefully, will help contribute to the possibilities for meaningful political change in our country. daniel, can i call you to the podium to kick off the summit? [applause] >> thank you, president daniels, for your eloquent words and your leadership on this important problem. um, what i want to do here, i know we're getting behind schedule, but i just want to very briefly do a couple of things. first of all, i want to extend my enormous gratitude to all of my colleagues who have stepped up to the plate to come and write for this book and present at this meeting. john and i made -- jan and i made calls right around the holidays and said, um, could you please drop everything you're doing a

they are essentially the same rules under which daniel webster and lyndon johnson operated.y did great things. almost the same rules that mike mansfield and ted kennedy and other orrin hatch used to pass great pieces of legislation. the same rule which is the senate democrats and president george h.w. bush passed in agreement including taxes to begin to tackle the deficit. i remind everyone here as i take my leave from the senate, when president george h. w. bush returned from agreeing to deficit reduction agreement that andrew's air force base, he wrote in the personal dire i are he might well have sealed the fate as a one-term president. he did what he thought was right for the country and he layed the ground work for our ability to three times balance the budget at the end of the 1990s. that's courage. and the senate and the congress and the country need more of it. frankly, the problems that we live through today come from individual choices of senators themselves, not the rules but in individual senator or a can lewding caucus determine that the comedy essential to an c

from all over the country to attend debates especially when great titans like henry clay and daniel webster and john c calhoun and others were debating. imagine a much smaller senate chamber crowded with men who might have hated each other literally elbow to elbow at the small desk reeking of cigar smoke, smelling of gas from gas lample -- lamps, carpets with spit toons scattered here or there. men spitting and missing and an intense conjected at fear with political men going mono and men know in the arena of 19th century american. >> two of the men henry clay and steven douglas. what was their role? >> henry clay had been in requirement. he was called out of retirement in kentucky to take charge of a attempt to create some kind of a comprise. he was known as great compriser for husbanding the comprise of 1820, the missouri comprise and the 1833 comprise that lost the country back against from crisis over south carolina's nullification of federal law. henry clay was a grand remarkable man, and never 2000 -- no one to say no when he was inviolated to be the center of political attention. he

he is daniel webster. joining me now, he's the director of the johns hopkins center for gun policy and research. mr. webster, welcome. again, we're waiting for the governor, waiting for some of the crux of the proposals as he's set to speak in albany. let me ask you, as we anticipate some of the changes, do you think recertifying gun licenses will actually fly? >> well, if you mean will it fly, will it work, i think it's -- i think it's a reasonable measure to put forward. i think it's important to note that new york actually already has some of the most comprehensive gun control laws on the books. and i think they're benefiting from that. they do have a permit purchase licensing system that is much stronger than in most states that my research suggests that really does decrease the diversion of guns to criminals. >> y >> yeah. >> so i think this is one more layer to improve that. because they recognize that most of the guns used in crime, particularly in new york city, come from elsewhere. and so they wan

american came oliver to attend to be, especially when great titans like henry clay and daniel webster and john c. calhoun and others were debating. imagine a much smaller senate chamber crowded with men who hated each other, although two although, a room reeking of cigar smoke, smelling of gas from gas lamps. carpets with spittoons scattered here and there misfitting in one direction or another, and it intends, congested atmosphere with political man and a great gladiatorial arena of america. postcode was there on the compromise? >> guest: henry clay had been in retirement. he was called out of retirement in kentucky to take charge of an attempt to create some kind of a compromise. he was not missed a great compromise their for the compromise of 1820, missouri compromise and most of the 1833 compromise over south carolina's nullification of federal law. henry clay was a grand, remarkable man i never wanted to say no when he was invited to speak to the center political intentions. so he returned to washington and let the debate for seven months, attempting to persuade congressmen for t

from all over the country to attend debates and especially when great titans like henry clay and daniel webster and john cm calhoun and others -- c. calhoun and others were debating. but imagine a much smaller senate chamber crowded with men who might have hated each other literally elbow to elbow at their small desks, a room reeking of cigar smoke, smelling of gas from gas lamps, carpets with spitoons scattered here and there meant spitting in -- men spitting in one direction or another, often missing. and a tense and intense, congested atmosphere with political men going mano a mano in the great glad tore y'all arena of 19th century america. >> two of those men, henry clay and stephen douglas, what was their role in the compromise 134. >> well, henry clay was called out of retirement in kentucky to take charge of an attempt to create some kind of a congresswoman propoise. -- compromise. he was known as the great compromiser for husbanding the compromise of 1820, the missouri compromise, and also the 1833 compromise that walked the country back again from crisis over south carolina's nullifica

daniel webster, the great politician and intellect, he had a popular toast he would give in washington. he'd say here's to the next cabinet, may they all be bachelors or widowers. [laughter] during months and months of gridlock, almost every member of jackson's inner circle opposed peggy. all of them except one. eventually, jackson fires his whole cabinet, reorganizes his government. basically because of little peg. ultimately, after two terms as president, eight years, jackson was so popular he could have won a third term. he was beloved by the people, despite the scandal or perhaps because of the scandal. the masses loved the great commoner, andrew jackson. some-aiz -- some of his opponents had bad mouthed little peg and his wife, wanted to oppose him. so jackson reaches out to his kitchen cabinet about the only member of his inner circle who didn't say bad things about peg and gets that person to run in his place. that's martin van buren, the little magician, as they called him. otherwise ratherrer relevant politician. martin van buren is happened picked by jackson to continue his l

i'll turn it over to daniel webster. >> thank you very much. thank you for your extraordinary support and leadership through the process. my colleagues at the johns hopkins center for gun policy and research and bloomberg school of public health. we're grateful for your leadership and support. the last two days have been really amazing experience for me to bring together the best scholars, the e best expertise to grapple with and come forward with a set of recommendations that would be based on the best available research and experience. i'm going touch very briefly upon the e per tease that we assembled. as president daniels alluded to, we searched far and wide. we have individuals coming from several different countries to contribute to this effort. we have criminologists, public health leaders, legal experts, a really vast majority of span of experienced and expertise, and really many, many decades of working on this problem of gun violence and solutions to it. involving mass shootings, we tended -- go through a similar process, and prior to

so daniel webster and i and others have been looking at the effect of those agreements and the diversion to the new york city criminals by the ten dealers that we studied was dramatically reduced, 80% reduction you don't see that kind of enormous reduction in diversion for other kinds of gun violence prevention interventions. so again, targeting the small number of dealers that are disproportionately responsible for supplying the guns to criminals has the potential for enormous benefits. but this kind of information targeting those dealers relies upon access to the crime done trace data that tells us the dealers are in fact supplying guns to criminals polka. you've heard about the tiahrt amendment named for the congressman who edited the language beginning in 2003 to the bureau of firearms appropriation language the amendment has evolved some overtime but its major provisions today require the dealers to conduct a physical inventory of their store as part of an inspection to make sure that their stock winds up with their sales records and they are not selling guns out the back door. the

were the giants of the senates who came before us, the daniel websters, henry clays, robert tafts, the hubert humphreys, were they any less a senator because they were not defined by a de facto 60-vote supermajority requirement? mr. president, i believe the senate should embrace george washington's vision of this body if that story is true about him and jefferson and the saucer and the tea. the senate was set up to slow things down, to ensure proper debate and deliberation. that is what the founders intended. that's what we've advocated and that's what i advocate. we will not become the house. as one author has noted, however, the increasing use of the filibuster has converted the senate from the saucer george washington intended into a deep freeze and a dead weight. at the heart of this debate is the central question: do we believe in democracy? republicans and sadly many of my colleagues in my own caucus repeatedly warn about advancing these reforms because democrats will find themselves in the minority one day and may want to stop something. well, i'm sorry, i don't fear democracy.

daniel webster said, "we're all agents of the same supreme power: the people." today as we begin a new congress, we're ad toed the opportunity to reflect upon the successes and failures of past congresses. it's been said that the 112th couldn't was characterized by some of the sharpest political divisions in memory. during the last congress, there were all so many commendable examples of compromise. the recent effort to avert the fiscal cliff was an example of both the divisions and the collaborations that will mark a moment in history, and it was a moment in history. although the process of resolving some of of the fiscal issues facing this country was extremely difficult and protracted, in the end our two parties came together to protect america's middle class. that's something of which we should all be proud. as we advance the debate over the best way to strengthen our economy and reduce our deficit during this congress, the 113th, democrats will continue to stand strong for the principle of balance. and i'm hopeful and confident my republican colleagues will

and there was tremendous discussion, and senators like daniel webster and calhoun and others would work with each other and have heated debate, but for that 40 years before the civil war, they held the country together. and it was the senate that fashioned those compromises that allowed the country to stay out of a civil war. they didn't complete completely prevent it, but most people looking at history say those were some of the glory days of the senate. and the second period was in the 1960's and 1970's with senators like musky and -- musk ye and -- muskee and stafford and chafee, giants in this body who stepped forward and civil rights, stepped forward on environmental issues, stepped forward on the pressing issues of the time. and so the senate once again in that time period passed laws. i remember i was a kid here in washington, my father was secretary of the interior, the wilderness law, clean water act, clean air act, we set up the environmental protection agency. i mean, these were big laws, big, bold laws that were dealing with our problem. so once again, glory days of the sena

thanks to daniel webster and colleagues, we were able to organize quickly and thoughtfully an international conference on reducing gun violence in america. with a call for action at the federal level, this summit is our effort to galvanize collective expertise and advance the discussion of gun violence in america through robust research and evidence. we also understood a critical component of the summit would be to create research that can inform, shape, and support policy debate. you will hear these important recommendations in a moment. as we have indicated a number of times throughout the summer at. that book will be published and will capture the research discussed in the last two days of the summit. before turning over the podium, i want to thank the scores of people who are in this room who have made this summit the possible and successful bloomberg school of public health are very grateful for your support. the last two days have been an amazing experience for me to bring together the best scholars, the best expertise, to grapple and come forward with a set of recommendations based o

room, or maybe on the johns hopkins campus at this point is unfamiliar with my collaborators, daniel webster work in the context of this entire stem but also the work on the specific study done was done in a very short turnaround time frame as you will see. and many of you might not know emma mcginty who is emblematic of the students we have here at johns hopkins. beth is extraordinary. she's a fourth year doctoral student in the ph.d. program, and i think it's fair to say that without beth's talent and involvement in the program it wouldn't have happened. thank you, beth. i think that i may be the only speaker presenting research here who is not an expert on non-policy and gun violence. my expertise is rather in health policy and in particular mental health and substance use policies which is not unrelated to some of the events we've been talking about today, but i also spend a lot of time thinking it out and conducting public opinion research and have an interest in the research methods, so that's the context in which i became involved in the work of the summit. what caught my attention in

so daniel webster and die, and others, have been looking at the ethics of those agreements.and the diversion the new york city criminal sites, despite the 10 dealers we studied, was dramatically reduced, 80% reduction. you just don't see that kind of enormous reduction in the version for other kinds of gun violence prevention, intervention. so again, targeting a small number of dealers that are disproportionately responsible for supplying guns to criminals has the potential for enormous, enormous benefit. but this kind of information, targeting those dealers, relies upon access to the crime gun trace data. the data that tells us which can dealers are, in fact, supplying guns to criminals. and so you heard so far today about the tr an amendment name for a congressman, todd, who added the language begin in 2003 to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms appropriations language that amendment has evolved some overtime. but its major provisions today are that atf can't require dealers to conduct a physical inventory of their store as part of an inspection to make sure that t

a banner in our case that was passed from the sons of the american revolution like daniel webster to the sons of immigrants like paul tsongas and to know that a state where the apoll listingisted crusaded and the sufficient fro jets marched could send to washington sons like ted kennedy and ed brook who fought to expand civil rights and now a woman, elizabeth warren, who proved that in massachusetts the grat ceiling has finally been forever shattered. and what a remarkable gift massachusetts has given me to come here and learn so much about the rest of our country. i've had the privilege of learning what really makes our nation tick. what a gift to have been the nominee of my party, to have come within a whisper of winning the presidency against a wartime incumbent, but more importantly to have experienced the magic of our nation in such a personal way, to experience the gift of traveling along the banks of the mighty mississippi through iowa and south dakota and along the rivers where lewis and clark marked and measured the dream of our first secretary of state, thomas jefferson, wh