mr. collins. >> thank you, dr. price. presenters, when speaking, please push the button on the microphone. light indicates the microphone is on. microphoneg your close and press the button to turn it off when you are done speaking. the first panel covers an introduction and the scope of the problem. our panelists is the director of unit for experimental psychiatry at the university of pennsylvania's pearlman school medicine, and brian teft, at the aaasociate safety.or traffic >> good morning. thank you for inviting me to speak at this important meeting. i'm going to begin by setting the stage for the biological that make drowsiness it so terrifically dangerous when we drive. next slide, please. remind thoseng to listening and looking at these slides are that, as near as we now, all animals need to sleep. and humans are no exception. sleep is an essential part of our health and survival. have to do it on a daily basis and we have to achieve sleepy sleep and we need that is of adequate duration to e

mr. dennis collins to introduce the first panel. mr. collins. >> thank you, dr. price. presenters, when speaking, please push the button on the microphone. a green light indicates the microphone is on. please bring your microphone close and press the button to turn it off when you're done speaking. the first panel covers an introduction and the scope of the problem. our panelists are dr. david, chief of the division of sleep and director of the unit for experimental psychiatry at that time university of pennsylvania's perlman school of aaa and brian teft of the foundation for safety. dr. dinges. >> good morning. thank you for inviting me to speak at this important meeting. i'm going to begin by setting the stage for the biological effects of drowsiness that make it so terrificcally dangerous when we drive. next slide, please. the first thing to remind those listening and looking at these slides are that as near as we know right now, all animals need to sleep, and humans are no exception. sleep an essential part of our health and survival. we have to do it on a daily bas

mr. collins say. the republican party is up to the task. republican party, through the leadership of john a. boehner, the leadership of what will be mitch mcconnell as the senate majority leader is going to do that. we will take all the issues and that is immigration, and we are going to have an immigration bill. and we're going to do the right thing. . today we're talking about jobs. we need competition for the price of nrbling. we need to make sure we don't depend as much on the middle east. we work with our friends from canada and it does not take the republican party, six years, 2 ,246 days days, i urge my colle to support this bill and i move the previous question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back the balance of his time. without objection the previous question is ordered. the question is on adoption of the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the resolution is agreed to. does the gentleman from texas ask for the yeas and nays? the yeas and nays are requ

senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. campbell, i do appreciate the work that you are doing. but until we put in jail a lot of people who are committing these scams, we are not going to see real progress. the ftc has told us that there were 127,000 imposter scams last year alone. so how many of these cases were prosecuted in response to the chairman, you mentioned just one case in 2012. how many? >> right. we don't track specific numbers regarding, say, a grandparent scam or a particular individual who has been targeted. but we have investigated a wide variety of individuals in regard to these types of fraud which have taken place. we have have had a number of convictions related to those. we're pursuing them. it certainly is a priority for us as i noted in regard to the establishment of ic3 to target this threat and to dedicate the resources that we can with our interagency partners against this threat. >> what worries is what i'm hearing sounds very bureaucratic. it sounds like there are a lot of task forces going on an

senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. campbell, i do appreciate the work that you are doing. but until we put in jail a lot of people who are committing these scams, we are not going to see real progress. the ftc has told us that there were 127,000 imposter scams last year alone. so how many of these cases were prosecuted in response to the chairman, you mentioned just one case in 2012. how many? >> right. we don't track specific numbers regarding, say, a grandparent scam or a particular individual who has been targeted. but we have investigated a wide variety of individuals in regard to these types of fraud which have taken place. we have have had a number of convictions related to those. we're pursuing them. it certainly is a priority for us as i noted in regard to the establishment of ic3 to target this threat and to dedicate the resources that we can with our interagency partners against this threat. >> what worries is what i'm hearing sounds very bureaucratic. it sounds like there are a lot of task forces going on an

mr. collins. >> all right. >> i was so still and weird to watch that after having watched the tony awards my skin was firing on all cylinders. >> nice dialogue. >> i just wanted to service the material as best as i could. i was so appreciative i got to have a meeting with david fincher, a director i've legitimately admired. when he got cast on the movie, i got to realize i was spending more time with them and i wanted to make sure i was not the weak link. >> do you know where you will be five years from now? you will be living in harlem and a townhouse that will be completed by then. >> here is hoping. five years from now -- >> will you have become a movie star? have you done your last television series? >> i don't want to declare. i would say -- >> you are going through a thing where you are deciding a what you might say and what will be the repercussions -- >> i'm trying to weigh out if i won it to be a movie star and what that would mean and what if i wanted to be on another tv show and what that would mean. i am loving i'm able to do dabbles of it all. i am not sure if the movie star

mr. collins... >> charlie: all right! i was so still.watch that after having watching the tony award number where i'm so, like, firing on all cylinders. >> charlie: nice dialogue, too, though, isn't it? >> well, ben affleck's great. i just wanted to service the material as best as i could. to be super honest. i was so appreciative i got to meet david, the director, and when i got cast in the movie, i got to spend time with all of them and i wanted to make sure i wasn't the weak link in the chain. >> charlie: do you have any idea where you will be five years from now? >> our kids will be nine. >> charlie: you will be living in harlem in a townhouse to be completed by then. >> here's hoping. >> charlie: yeah. five years from now -- >> charlie: i mean, will you have become a movie star and do other things? >> i don't know. >> charlie: have you done your last television series? >> oh, i don't want to declare. i would say -- >> charlie: and you're doing -- going through a thing where you're deciding what you might say and what are the repercu

mr. dennis collins to introduce the first panel. mr. collins. >> thank you, dr. price. presenters, when speaking, please push the button on the microphone. a green light indicates the microphone is on. please bring your microphone close and press the button to turn it off when you're done speaking. the first panel covers an introduction and the scope of the problem. our panelists are dr. david, chief of the division of sleep and director of the unit for experimental psychiatry at that time university of pennsylvania's perlman school of medicine and brian teft of the aaa foundation for safety. dr. dinges. >> good morning. thank you for inviting me to speak at this important meeting. i'm going to begin by setting the stage for the biological effects of drowsiness that make it so terrifically dangerous when we drive. next slide, please. the first thing to remind those listening and looking at these slides are that as near as we know right now, all animals need to sleep, and humans are no exception. sleep an essential part of our health and survival. we have to do it on a d

collins. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i very much appreciate your calling this important hearing so that we can better explore the relationship between traumatic brain injury and diseases associated with ageing as much as alzheimer's, par kinsons and lou gehrig's disease, also known as als. traumatic brain injury or tbi affects 5 million americans at an annual cost of more than $76 billion. as the senate cochair of the alzheimer's task force, i'm particularly interested in the research conducted over the past three decades that is linked moderate and severe traumatic brain injury to a greater risk of developing alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. one troubling study sited by the alzheimer's association found that older individuals with a history of mod rale traumatic brain injury are more than twice as likely to develop alzheimer's than our seniors with no history of brain injury. those with a history of severe traumatic brain injury were found in this study to have a 4.5 times greater risk. finding a way to

mr. chambliss: i would recognize the senator from maine for two minutes. the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins mr. president? thank you, mr. president. mr. president, we need reform of the n.s.a. programs but not in this manner. let's remember why this intelligence tool was put into place. it was enacted in the wake of the worst terrorist attack in our country that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people. and we have testimony from the former director of the f.b.i., from the former deputy director of the c.i.a. telling us that had this tool been in place, it is likely, most likely that the plot that killed nearly 3,000 people would have been uncovered. why would we weaken the ability of our intelligence community at a time when the threats against this country have never been greater? and let me address to my colleagues the privacy issue that has been raised. an issue that all of us care about. this data, these data are far more safe, far more subject to privacy protections if they are held by the federal government where only 22 vetted and trained government employees have access to them, inste

collins? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i apologize for being a few minutes late. like you, i'm trying to balance a lot of different commitments today. i want to thank you for calling this hearing to explore once again the dangers posed by con artists looking to swindle older americans out of their life savings. this is our seventh hearing on such scams. and i appreciate you are maintaining the committee's focus on this incredibly important topic. in fact, a great deal of what we have learned about these scams is a result of reports and complaints made to the committee's fraud hotline. today's hearing explores a form of impercent nation scam that we call the grandparent scam. a scammer calls a potential victim and claims to be someone he is not who needs cash immediately because of an emergency. the scammer plays on the victim's emotions by claiming to be a grandchild or another loved one. he says that he needs money because he has been in an accident, his car is broken down or he is stranded in a foreign country. i myself have received an e-mail version of this sc

collins, aye. >> this is a drug that is a blood thinner. >> mr. craig,aye. >> this is an anti-spasm medication. >> aye. >> this is a nerve pain education. an antidepressant. >> aye. >> this is for morning nausea. >> aye. .> and this is morphine it is an aquatic and in the situation, the effect is not to get high, but to kill pain and so i have to take more and more of it to stop the pain. >> that was tomas young interspersed with a vote for war in congress. till donahue, before we go to break, how you came to know thomas in the making of this film? >> after meeting him at walter book andhought about a i thought, well, i have been in tv, by career has had moving pictures. although i had never made a film, db howick, who is a whotime progressive figure was responsible for dishtv whom i met on th airplane -- >> and producer. >> yes. i called and said, hello, i am filled on he. she said, no i'm not. and i thought, well thank god she recognized me. we met at the kansas city airport and went to see tomas and she immediately braced the idea. she turned o

collins. anyone like to ask a question? >> thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> i just wanted to ask ms. wesley because she is from edison and i asked her to come, what one of the concerns i have, and i think we can use this in terms of hydroreceiveless but probably applies in general is that often, you know, you talk about the shunt a lot of times you have to have multiple surgeries. and i do worry and i know you have expressed this to my staff, about the whole issue of you know, cost to the family and insurance and coverage because we tend to think of, you know, clearly there's more need for research and i know particularly when you deal with a pediatric research, i think the doctor mentioned that it a problem and our focus is on cures. but i do worry, as you talk about your son, that initial operation is covered but then you know maintenance of the shunt, having the repeated operations, the whole issue of access you know for this type of care, did you just want to comment on that a little bit? because i know you didn't really do that. and i know you do talk about it a lot. not only yo

mr. clark has brushed aside that restriction and represented vet rants free of charge to make sure they get the benefits they deserve. maurice collin, a marine corps veteran, vietnam, served as an officer in the office of advocacy and assistance in the connecticut department of veterans affairs. he was selected to serve as acting commissioner and since his retirement from state government, he's continued to contribute his time to veterans. he provides volunteer driving assistance to disabled veterans in eastern connecticut to their medical appointments. and supervises the clothing donation program at the newington v.a. hospital. robert of old lyme will be inducted posthumously today after his retirement in 1984 he went on to serve as the director of the veterans home in rocky hill. for 10 years he worked vigorously to rehabilitate, educate, and place veterans into clears. finally, verry wright of bolten, connecticut, served two tours in vietnam in the army and later as a member of the army national guard, served in operation desert storm. since retiring in 1999, jerry has been everywhere, helping veterans all across the connecticut

collins. in 1957 at the age of 18, mr. white enlisted in the united states navy and bravely served our country for the next 20 years. after he retired from the navy, . white and his wife, joyce, moved to north hampton county and settled in the town of woodland, north carolina, which would ultimately become home for them and for their three children, cynthia, cheryl and terrence. mr. white found his calling in law enforcement and began his career with the woodland police department in 1980 when he served as an officer and ultimately as chief of police. he later moved to the north hampton county sheriff's office and served as a deputy sheriff and also worked as a corrections officer at odom correctional institution just outside of jackson, north carolina. in 1999, mr. speaker, mr. white became the chief of police for the small town but a rich town rich in legacy, the town of rich square. sadly chief white's stellar career in law enforcement that saw him ascend to the position of chief of police of two north carolina police d

mr. chambliss: i would recognize the senator from maine for two minutes. the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: mr. president? thank you, mr. president. mr. president, we need reform of the n.s.a. programs but not in this manner. let's remember why this intelligence tool was put into place. it was enacted in the wake of the worst terrorist attack in our country that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people. and we have testimony from the former director of the f.b.i., from the former deputy director of the c.i.a. telling us that had this tool been in place, it is likely, most likely that the plot that killed nearly 3,000 people would have been uncovered. why would we weaken the ability of our intelligence community at a time when the threats against this country have never been greater? and let me address to my colleagues the privacy issue that has been raised. an issue that all of us care about. this data, these data are far more safe, far more subject to privacy protections if they are held by the federal government where only 22 vetted and trained government employees have access to them, inst