Claim: US Sen. Reed wants to shorten the suicide prevention hotline.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act
text: Fisher, Paul Luebke, Joe Sam Queen, Evelyn Terry, Ken Waddell, Joyce Waddell, Angela Bryant, Joel D. M. Ford, and Jane W. Smith were excused absent. The independent representative Paul Tine, a member of the Republican caucus, voted against the bill. Supporters of House Bill 2 said the Charlotte ordinance was sloppily written and overreaching, and that in their view its wording essentially did away with single-sex bathrooms. Representative Dan Bishop, the bill's sponsor, cited this as grounds for the state to override local ordinances. Call volume to the Trans Lifeline transgender suicide-prevention hotline doubled after the passage of the bill.

title: Greg Reed
text: long-term care under a capitated system. Alabama Medicaid estimates it will save taxpayers $1.5 billion over the first ten years. Greg Reed Greg Reed (born June 5, 1965) is a Republican member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 5th District since 2010. He defeated Democrat Brett Wadsworth in the 2010 midterm elections to replace Charles Bishop in the 5th District. Reed was named Chairman of the Alabama Senate Health Committee for the 2011 quadrennium. During his tenure, he sponsored and passed Medicaid reform legislation that created Regional Care Organizations (RCOs). RCOs are self-sustaining managed care organization that receive a capitated

title: Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)
text: limiting American oil use and expanding alternative energy. He opposes Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling and federal subsidies for oil exploration, while favoring a 40 percent reduction in oil use by 2025 and funding for hydrogen automobiles. Reed has voted to end discussions on Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. He has also been an outspoken proponent of stronger restrictions of mercury use, as well as an end to commercial whaling. Reed has voted against limiting lawsuits on gun manufacturers and has favored expanding gun control. He voted against loosening background checks at gun shows. Although he voted for the 1996

title: Suicide Prevention Hotline
text: package includes a pill bottle, which contains a personal, but brief, message, written by Bethancourt himself. Suicide Prevention Hotline Suicide Prevention Hotline EP is an official extended play release from Alaska in Winter. It debuted 31 May 2011 through the band's Blogspot account, and a note published on its Facebook page. According to frontman Brandon Bethancourt, although the extended play is available merely on twenty micro-cassettes through his BigCartel page as an exclusive pre-release, the extended play will formally be released in "CD and mp3 form soon." The limited-edition micro-cassette format is designed for usage in telephone answering machines lest

title: Chesley Sullenberger
text: became a suicide prevention activist, having promoted National Suicide Prevention Week and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. In October 2009, it was reported that the Republican Party had approached Sullenberger about running against Democratic U.S. Representative Jerry McNerney of California's 11th congressional district in the 2010 elections. Sullenberger's publicist said that Sullenberger had no desire to run for any public office. In late October 2018, Sullenberger entered the political fray of the midterm election with an op-ed in "The Washington Post" calling on Americans to vote "for leaders who are committed to the values that will unite and protect us", who

title: The Kristin Brooks Hope Center
text: result of post partum depression or psychosis. Upon learning there was no such organization in 1998 he decided donate it to an organization that ran a national suicide hotline for people in crisis. Upon learning that in 1998 there was no national suicide hotline linking the more than 800 community based suicide crisis hotlines he founded the Kristin Brooks Hope Center and began linking those community crisis hotlines through 1-888-SUICIDE(784-2433). 1-888-SUICIDE and1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433) were both part of the National Hopeline Network from its activation September 16, 1998 until the FCC temporarily reassigned it in January 2006. The US Surgeon General

title: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
text: Dunkerly was removed from the board. The AFSP excludes the Brady Campaign from donating or participating. Similar accounts of gun safety groups have been reported in Wisconsin by Khary Penebaker, San Diego by Wendy Wheatcroft, and in Maine by Judi Richardson. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization established in 1987. It funds research, runs educational programs, advocates for public policies in mental health and suicide prevention, and supports survivors of suicide loss. It is headquartered in New York, with an office in Washington, D.C. AFSP funds several programs to

title: Tom Reed (politician)
text: a permanent measure because "doing it on a temporary basis... is part of the problem. We need to make this sound policy permanent in the tax code and I'm optimistic we'll get it to the finish and allow people to take advantage of the tax deduction that would encourage them to use the food rather than put it in a landfill." On May 4, 2017, Reed voted in favor of repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and pass the American Health Care Act. In the House, Reed votes in line with President Donald Trump's position about 96.6%

title: Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)
text: campaign contributions from bank CEO Jamie Dimon. Reed supports affirmative action. He has voted to expand such policies and to set aside money for women and minorities from the highway fund. Reed also has supported gay rights, voting against a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, while voting in favor of measures that prevent job discrimination and hate crimes against LGBT. He is strongly in favor of abortion rights, and he has rejected proposals to limit late-term abortion, such procedures from occurring on military installations, and the ability of minors to cross state lines to obtain abortions. Reed supports

title: Tom Coburn
text: don't want to save suicides, but because I don't think this bill will do the first thing to change what's happening," arguing the bill" "throws money and doesn't solve the real problem" After retiring from the U.S. Senate, Coburn joined Citizens for Self-Governance as a senior advisor to the group's Convention of States project, which seeks to convene a convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution. In 2017, he authored a book on the subject titled "Smashing the DC Monopoly: Using Article V to Restore Freedom and Stop Runaway Government". Since 2015, Coburn has been affiliated with the

title: Suicide Prevention Hotline
text: Suicide Prevention Hotline Suicide Prevention Hotline EP is an official extended play release from Alaska in Winter. It debuted 31 May 2011 through the band's Blogspot account, and a note published on its Facebook page. According to frontman Brandon Bethancourt, although the extended play is available merely on twenty micro-cassettes through his BigCartel page as an exclusive pre-release, the extended play will formally be released in "CD and mp3 form soon." The limited-edition micro-cassette format is designed for usage in telephone answering machines lest the "unanswered cries" from the extended play not be heard by listeners. Additionally, the limited-edition "pre-release"

title: United States military veteran suicide
text: for veterans who prefer to reach out for assistance using the Internet. In 2010, the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention was created and, in 2012, the National Strategy was revised. With Obama’s administration suicide prevention strategies for veterans expanded and a goal was formed to make the process of finding and obtaining mental health resources easier for veterans, work to retain and recruit mental health professionals, and make the government programs more accountable for the people they serve. In 2011, the National Veterans Suicide Prevention Hotline was renamed the Veterans Crisis Line (VCL). The primary mission of the VCL

title: Barney Frank
text: to rail transportation security. In 2008, he co-sponsored the "Veterans Suicide Study Act" ( (S.2899/H.R.4204) 08-S2899) designed to study and address suicides among veterans. As of the 111th Congress, Frank is advocating a 25-percent reduction in the overall Military budget of the United States. "The math is compelling: if we do not make reductions approximating 25 percent of the military budget starting fairly soon, it will be impossible to continue to fund an adequate level of domestic activity ... ," wrote Frank. He claimed that such a significant reduction would have no effect on the United States' ability to defend

title: Suicide in Canada
text: bill from New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Megan Leslie, received its first reading in 2010 in Canada's House of Commons. Harold Albrecht (Kitchener—Conestoga, CPC) introduced in September 2011 a private member's bill, known as the Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention Act, which directs the government to take responsibility for information and knowledge sharing related to suicide and suicide prevention in consultation with various government levels and civil society. In October 2011, a day-long debate in the House of Commons resulted in passage of an opposition motion, by a vote of 272 yeas against 3 nays, to "urge the government

title: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
text: community. They have also sponsored and coordinated several national symposiums to address mental health and suicide within the LGBT community In August, 2016, the AFSP formed a partnership with the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry trade association. According to Erin Dunkerly, a volunteer whose father committed suicide with a gun, there is a high risk of suicide from keeping firearms in the home, but the AFSP staff told volunteers not to talk about gun control. The AFSP then excluded from its walks violence prevention groups that promoted gun control. A walk co-chairwoman was removed from her post, and

title: Suicide Prevention Action Network USA
text: Director of Public Policy & Program Development<br> Jerussia Smith, Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper SPAN USA's 2009 Federal Public Policy Priorities: 2009 State Public Policy Priorities: Read more about SPAN USA's public policy initiatives Suicide Prevention Action Network USA The Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA) is a 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in 1996 by Gerald and Elsie Weyrauch, whose 34-year-old daughter, Terri, died by suicide. SPAN USA is "dedicated to preventing suicide through public education and awareness, community action and federal, state and local grassroots advocacy." SPAN's theme is ""Opening Minds. Changing Policy. Saving Lives."" The Suicide Prevention Action Network

title: Strom Thurmond
text: and Russ Feingold. Thurmond had initially opposed the measure and changed his vote at the last minute. On the morning of October 3, Thurmond was admitted to Walter Reed after fainting at his Senate desk and accompanied in the ambulance by fellow Republican and retired heart transplant surgeon Bill Frist. Declining to seek re-election in 2002, he was succeeded by then-Congressman and fellow Republican Lindsey Graham, who still remains the senior South Carolina Senator. Thurmond left the Senate in January 2003 as the United States' longest-serving senator (a record later surpassed by Senator Byrd). In his November farewell speech in

title: Statewide Suicide Prevention Council
text: or teleconference for the transaction of business and the exercise of the powers and duties of the Council. The Council comes together approximately four times a year. Each meeting is held in a different part of Alaska. The Council annually reports its findings and recommendations in a report to the Governor, the president of the Senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives by March 1 each year. In the annual report, the suicide prevention efforts of the previous year are reviewed and evaluated. The 2010 annual report, released mid-January 2011, is called Mending the Net, referring to the

title: Greg Leding
text: Leding, a member of the Democratic Party, served as Minority Leader during his second term (2012-2014). The 91st General Assembly convened on Monday, January 9, 2017. Leding filed a number of bills, including: Co-Chair Member During his first term, Leding passed The Jason Flatt Act, a measure to reduce youth suicide in Arkansas. In his second term, during which he served as the House Minority Leader, Leding worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a bipartisan package of bills to prevent human trafficking in Arkansas. Other bipartisan legislative achievements in 2013 include The Landowner Notification Act, a measure to protect

title: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
text: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization established in 1987. It funds research, runs educational programs, advocates for public policies in mental health and suicide prevention, and supports survivors of suicide loss. It is headquartered in New York, with an office in Washington, D.C. AFSP funds several programs to reduce stigma and help the public better understand suicide. The Interactive Screening Program (ISP) was first piloted at Emory University and is an online tool used to connect people at risk for suicide with counselors. It has been implemented in many