Response. Ill invite you all to sit down now. So joining me on stage pardon me just a moment while i adjust this. First off we have congresswoman diana deget of colorado. She is a senior democrat on the house energy and commerce committee, ranking democrat on the oversight investigation subcommittee. She cosponsored coauthored the 20th century cures act which put a billion dollars of new general funds into the Opioid Epidemic to combat it. She is the chief deputy whip of the Democratic House democratic caucus. Thank you very much, congresswoman. Senator ed markey is here, of massachusetts, democrat, and member of the Senate Commerce committee which has broad jurisdiction over private industry including the pharmaceutical industry. He has done numerous investigations and authored numerous pieces of legislation to address this crisis. Hes going to talk quite a bit about that. Last but not least, chairman greg walden is with us today, of oregon, republican of oregon. He is he has drawn at
Them wereis for chosen as the top entries. Online, andh them of course, you can watch is here back your tomorrow at 7 00 eastern, for clock pacific. Until then, have a great saturday. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, a form on the legal issues surrounding encryption. Leaders are at how addressing the opioid addiction. Live inonald trump wisconsin. Then, at 7 00, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation hosted this discussion on encryption issues and policy, and what federal officials and policymakers should do to continue technological advances while continuing to protect the rule of law. This is one hour and 35 minutes. I would like to welcome you to todays event. The goal of todays event is to explore the ongoing debate about cryptography, and how to find the right balanc
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Michigan, early on after the Supreme Court decision said something to me that i just thought was crazy. He said, you know, this the court taking away the expansion from being mandatory and making it a state choice is going to end up being positive, because states that do the expansion are going to go through a process and embrace it as opposed to just doing it because they have to. And i thought that was kind of crazy. But over time im starting to see the wisdom of his reflection. Which is that every state that moves forward now has a deeper understanding of the program, its harder to fall back on the rhetoric of its welfare or its people who arent working or its a big Public Program when the reality is its serving working families that the Business Community is supportive, that its already largely delivered through private plans. And so dont get me wrong, i have a lot of concern about the pace of discussion, but the fact is we are having statespecific discussions about what fits subst
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