I applaud you for holding this historic hearing to discuss the problem of and potential remedies for the school-to-prison pipeline.

I must thank you for your leadership in raising one of the most profound, most pernicious, and most complex but most elusive issues of our day.

We will all owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude because you will have helped put the spotlight on one of America's most glaring but most elusive problems.

Exactly. The real benefit of the Affordable Care Act and it's effect on Medicare and everything else is that we are making this system more efficient. The health care system in the United States of America is very inefficient. We are going…

I think it's important to point out too that the full provisions of ObamaCare haven't even rolled out yet, although these preventive services are in place. And look at what's already happened.

Yes. So during your working life and when you start on Medicare, you are paying more if you make $85,000 or more.

Now we means-test Medicare for 5 percent of beneficiaries. Under proposals to cover 25 percent of beneficiaries, call them higher income, means-testing would start at $47,000 in income. Really? These are rich seniors? Covering 10 percent…

Thank you. I wanted to also make the point that there are many people who throughout their life have not been able to afford health care, and so they really are in need of health care when they turn 65. I have people coming into my office…

Thanks, Senator Franken.

This hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights will come to order.

I just think that it has to be--whoever is making the decision, whether it is a judge or a principal or a teacher or whoever it is who has authority, we have to give them more tools and more options.

Great. Thank you both for your testimony.

Tomorrow is the final meeting for our Georgia Criminal Justice Reform Council.

Thank you for ensuring that every student has the opportunity to stay on the pathway to success and not become caught in the school-to-prison pipeline.

This issue is not going away. It is here to stay until the pipeline is completely dismantled.

wouldn't the best outcome be no policeman in that school?

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