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Senator Casey has led efforts in Congress to crack down on the spread of fentanyl and xylazine. Casey has been a long-time supporter of the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, and in February, he introduced a measure that would require the Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a report on the illicit trafficking of xylazine and non-fentanyl derived synthetic opioids into the United States. Last month, the Senate passed the Casey-backed FEND Off Fentanyl Act, which targets, sanctions, and blocks the financial assets of transnational criminal organizations, from the chemical suppliers in China to the cartels that traffic the drugs from Mexico. Casey has been traveling around Pennsylvania meeting with law enforcement and families of victims of fentanyl overdoses as he pushes for passage of the bill. Casey also introduced Stop Fentanyl at the Border Act increases staffing capacity and technology to detect illicit drugs and other contraband being smuggled through ports of entry along the border. Provisions from the bill were initially included in the bipartisan emergency border and national security bill introduced in the Senate last month, but were removed by Senate Republicans after the former President came out against the deal.
Half of your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing score comes from the new SAT Reading Test, a 65-minute test that requires you to answer 52 questions spread out over five passages. The questions will ask you to do everything from determining the meaning of words in context to deciding an author's purpose for a detail to finding the main idea of a whole passage to pinpointing information on a graph. Each passage ranges from 500 to 750 words and has 10 or 11 questions. Time will be tight on this test.
Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Senator Maggie Hassan (NH) joined a bipartisan group of Senate and House colleagues in calling for urgent passage of an updated version of their Combating Illicit Xylazine Act. Since its introduction, this bipartisan, bicameral legislation has gained 23 new cosponsors in the Senate and 88 in the House of Representatives, and it has undergone several legislative changes to strengthen the bill text and ensure it can become law. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) are co-sponsors of the legislation.
"For years, we have known that harsh drug sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine have created a racially disparate impact on Black communities. The bipartisan EQUAL Act is the next step on the long road toward eliminating this unfair sentencing disparity. In 2009, I led the effort in the House to eliminate this disparity in the Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act. That effort eventual led to the 2010 passage of the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the crack cocaine disparity from 100:1 to 18:1. That was a hard-fought compromise, and the EQUAL Act will finally end the disparity. This is an important step toward fixing our criminal justice system and making it more fair. I want to thank my colleagues Representatives Hakeem Jeffries, Kelly Armstrong and Don Bacon for working with me on this bill and I urge my colleagues in the Senate to move quickly to send this bill to President Biden's desk."
In an Aug. 1 letter to Congress, the bishops announced their support for legislation passed in the House of Representatives that would eliminate a disparity in federal sentencing the bishops say has a disproportionate effect on Black people.
If approved by the Senate the EQUAL act would impose the same penalty on both forms of cocaine. In 1986 Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act which established separate sentences for cocaine and crack cocaine offenses. If two individuals were caught with the same amount of cocaine, the one with crack cocaine would receive a sentence 100 times as severe as the person convicted of distributing powder cocaine.
In 2010, Congress passed reforms to reduce that disparity to 18:1. Today, the penalty for 500 grams of powder cocaine is the same as for 28 grams of crack cocaine. The EQUAL Act would eliminate the disparity altogether.
The EQUAL act has an uncertain future in the Senate. Since it has 11 Republican co-sponsors, it could pass as a stand-alone bill. However, the ranking Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Charles Grassley, has his own bill to address disparities in drug sentencing. His legislation would reduce but not eliminate the disparity.
The prospect of the legislation's passage as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is far from guaranteed even though the legislation enjoys bipartisan support. Unrelated amendments attached to the NDAA often get removed in the process of reconciling the House and Senate bills.
You know in Draynor Manor, in the room down the stairs, where you fight the vampire during the quest "Vampire Slayer"? Well, right next to the bottom of the stairs, in the vampire room, I found a cage with a skeleton in it. In the cage there was a cracked wall passage(I used examine) and I tried to get through the gate guarding it, but my character just said, "Why would I want to lock myself in the cage?"
That crack and cage is for players who attack Count Draynor before they start the Vampire Slayer quest. He sends the player into the cage, but the player can just escape through the crack in the wall.
Now, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether people whose offenses predate the enactment of the FSA but who were sentenced afterwards should get the benefit of the new, fairer 18:1 statutory ratio, or instead be sentenced under the 100:1 ratio that Congress has repudiated
Cracks in the System: Twenty Years of the Unjust Federal Crack Cocaine Law(2006): In the 20 years following passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 2006, many of the myths surrounding crack cocaine were dispelled, making it clear that there was no scientific or penological justification for the 100:1 sentencing ratio.
Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Chair Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) renewed their call for the passage of their bipartisan legislation to crack down on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their shadowy tactics that drive up the cost of prescription drugs and force pharmacies across the country to shutter their doors.
Ahead of a press conference this morning, where Senators Crapo and Wyden were joined by pharmacy and patient advocates to press for PBM reform, the Senators sent a letter to Finance Committee members reaffirming their commitment to getting their legislation across the finish line as soon as possible this Congress.
It appears they did a pretty good job at the Riverside (CA) location, at least with regards to maintaining the integrity of the vehicle by not scratching the body, including around the edges of the windshield.
Whistling of the windshield after a replacement is not uncommon on the Jeep Wrangler JK, based on forum sources. Supposedly, this has to do with how the windshield is centered with respect to the distance to the windshield frame. I will have to see over the next few hundred miles if the whistling is going to be a long term issue (or at least, as long as the windshield lasts this time around). I would rather not have to take it back and have the windshield reset.
Anyway, a cracked windshield on a Wrangler JK is basically a rite of passage for Jeep owners. If and when I crack another windshield, I will most likely put in the effort (and money) to get the Mopar Gorilla Glass windshield installed.
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The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 implemented the initial disparity, reflecting Congress's view that crack cocaine was a more dangerous and harmful drug than powder cocaine. In the decades since, extensive research by the United States Sentencing Commission and other experts has suggested that the differences between the effects of the two drugs are exaggerated and that the sentencing disparity is unwarranted. Further controversy surrounding the 100:1 ratio was a result of its description by some as being racially biased and contributing to a disproportionate number of African Americans being sentenced for crack cocaine offenses.[3] Legislation to reduce the disparity has been introduced since the mid-1990s, culminating in the signing of the Fair Sentencing Act.
The Act has been described as improving the fairness of the federal criminal justice system, and prominent politicians and non-profit organizations have called for further reforms, such as making the law retroactive and complete elimination of the disparity (i.e., enacting a 1:1 sentencing ratio).
The use of crack cocaine increased rapidly in the 1980s, accompanied by an increase in violence in urban areas.[4] In response, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 included a provision that created the disparity between federal penalties for crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses, imposing the same penalties for the possession of an amount of crack cocaine as for 100 times the same amount of powder cocaine. The law also contained minimum sentences and other disparities between the two forms of the drug.[5]
In the three decades prior to the passing of the Fair Sentencing Act, those who were arrested for possessing crack cocaine faced much more severe penalties than those in possession of powder cocaine. While a person found with five grams of crack cocaine faced a five-year mandatory minimum prison sentence, a person holding powder cocaine could receive the same sentence only if he or she held five hundred grams. Similarly, those carrying ten grams of crack cocaine faced a ten-year mandatory sentence, while possession of one thousand grams of powder cocaine was required for the same sentence to be imposed.[6]
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