A Message from
Thom:
What
Thom’s
Working
On:
Stopping
the
President
From
Closing Guantanamo Bay
This
week,
President
Obama
announced
his
plan
to
close
Guantanamo
Bay
and
transfer
some
of
the
world’s
most
dangerous
terrorists
to
American
soil.
So
many
brave
men
and
women
risked
their
lives
to
capture
these
very
same
terrorists,
and
they
were
sent
to
Guantanamo
so
they
would
pose
no
risk
to
the
American
people.
The
Obama
administration’s
transfer
of
terrorists
from
Guantanamo
to
other
countries
has
already
proven
to
be
an
unmitigated
disaster,
resulting
in
terrorists
returning
to
the
battlefield
to
jeopardize
the
national
security
of
America
and
our
allies.
Thom
will
do
everything
he
can
to
stop
the
president’s
plan
and
keep
Guantanamo
terrorists
out
of
America.
Fighting
Heroin
and
Prescription
Painkiller
Addiction
Thom
recently
wrote
an
op-ed addressing
the
growing
epidemic
of
opioid
abuse
in
North
Carolina
and
across
the
country. In
2014,
1,358
North
Carolinians
died
from
drug
overdoses.
To
put
that
into
context,
that’s
more
than
the
number
of
North
Carolinians
who
died
in
automobile
accidents. The
Senate
will
soon
begin
debating
the
Comprehensive
Addiction
and
Recovery
Act.
Thom
has
co-sponsored
this
groundbreaking
legislation,
which
brings
together
the
experiences
and
recommendations
of
drug
addiction
experts,
law
enforcement,
health
care
providers,
first
responders,
and
those
most
affected
by
the
opioid
epidemic.
Thom
will
fight
to
get
this
legislation
passed
and
help
those
people
in
need.
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"Our
nation
needs
smart,
commonsense
approaches
such
as
the
Comprehensive
Addiction
and
Recovery
Act.
However,
we
must
be
honest
in
recognizing
that
success
will
be
neither
quick
nor
easy.
Addiction
is
a
vicious
and
devastating
cycle
of
abuse
and
despair.
It
affects
us
all.
The
fight
against
addiction
is
one
we
must
wage
together,
and
one
we
cannot
afford
to
lose."
-
Senator
Thom
Tillis
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In
Case
You
Missed
It:
Ensuring
Students
Get
the
Nutrition
They
Need
Last
week,
Thom
visited
Belmont
Central
Elementary
School
to
visit
with
students
and
advocate
for
better
and
healthier
schools
meals. Thom
talked
with
the
cafeteria
staff,
ate
with
students,
and
met
with
school
officials
about legislation
that
would
give
school
systems
nationwide
more
flexibility
in
determining
the
types
of
food
served
to
students.
Thom's
goal
is
for
schools
to
serve
more
appetizing
healthy
meals
that
children
want
to
eat. The
legislation
is
currently
under
review
by
the
U.S.
Senate
Agriculture,
Nutrition,
and
Forestry
Committee.
Thom
hopes
it
will
come
across
the
President’s
desk
later
this
year.
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“We
want
to
get
to
a
point
where
we
can
go
into
any
school
like
this
one
and
know
that
the
meals
being
served
reach
this
level
of
nutritional
standards,”
he
said.
“More
importantly,
not
that
the
meals
are
getting
to
that
nutritional
standard
but
that
the
majority
of
the
students
are
eating
them.”
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Senator
Thom
Tillis
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Fighting
Plan
to
Cut
Tricare
Autism
Reimbursement
Rates
Thom
questioned
plans
from
the
Pentagon
to
reduce
Tricare
rates
for
autism
therapy
specialists,
expressing
concern
that
the
pay
cut
will
result
in
few
providers
willing
to
accept
Tricare
patients.
Tricare
officials
announced
late
last
year
that
they
plan
to
reduce
reimbursement
rates
for
providers
for
"applied
behavior
analysis"
autism
therapy
by
as
much
as
35
percent
for
providers
in
certain
locations.
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"The
ABA
treatment
for
persons
with
autism
and
the
proposed
rate
cut
is
something
that
I'm
concerned
with
the
timing
of. I
think
we
may
be
making
a
mistake
cutting
treatment
options
below
the
national
average
and
produce
a
bad
outcome
for
something,
I
think,
that
has
been
proven
to
be
highly
effective
and
highly
beneficial
to
those
that
take
advantage
of
the
treatment."
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Senator
Thom
Tillis
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