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The subcommittee will come to order. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement. The United States of america is in the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic brought to us by opioids. It does not matter where you live. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. While new england and the ohio valley regions represent states hardest hit by. The epidemic, Health Officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West report deaths of those counties. The latest fig...

Classic moments of life and in 2011, it was selected in the issue, one of the best photos in life magazine for the past 75 years. American history tv, all weekend, every weekend, only on cspan3. The house energy and commerce subcommittee on health met yesterday to hear testimony from members of congress about how the nations Opioid Epidemic has affected their districts and their constituents. Texas congressman, michael burgess, chaired this hearing. Its three hours and fifteen minutes. The subco...

Associate director of the institute on constitutional democracy. Thanks to cspan for being here. We are doing something a little differently because of cspan being here. For instance, im going to say a little bit more about what the institute is at the beginning for the tv audience. Founded in 2014, it is a joint project between the university of missouri Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholarly groups on campus. Dedicated to research, teaching, and Community...

Red eye from california to here to be with us and then taking the flight right away back. Unfortunately, his airplane had mechanical problems and he was unable to make his connection in chicago, but we have two of the young africanamerican dc aker congressional candidates. Were going to have a discussion about political activism. Theyll talk about their campaign. We will then break down to a discussion of political activism, how were active in your local communities and how we can sort of learn ...

They started the air attack, the first drop was half an hour ago. The front page of the chronicle said, catching a break from the fires, then you wake up this morning to a new fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I hope that the weather helps out. Definitely, the timing on the new fire is similar to what we saw in the north bay, flames there started 10 00 sunday night and crews had their hands tied until the next day to get the air drops going. Lets show you where the new fire is burning, it starte...

U. S. House candidates, one running in michigans 11th district the other in californias 39th district. They talk about their reasons for running for office and outreach efforts to Muslim Americans, latinos and millenials. This is about an hour 50 minutes. If i can have everyones attention. Were going to go into our sort of next panel, next discussion. Unfortunately, one of the congressional candidates that we had texted me about 3 00 a. M. , a picture of himself on a plane. He was going to be ta...

Having moving forward. Reporter many of the students are angry in the wake of racist stunts like pumpkins carve the to feature kkk initials and swastikas. At this 50 percent black high school they do not believe the administration is cracking down on the racial intimidation. There was a recent doll hanging and also a racial slurs written on a pumpkin. Were taking a stand by ourself without administration to show were not standing by it. Reporter a number of parents came out to support the Studen...

The operations were highly organized and located unmarked buildings throughout the city typically in low income neighborhoods. Reporter according to investigators cray and his relatives ran numbers out of the his location on ridge avenue and this one on germantown avenue. Most of the people that placed bets at these locations were on fixed incomes. You had to know what you had to know to be able to come play numbers. Reporter investigators say cray owned his home in moorestown, n, and others at ...

Please come to order. We have a vote at 11 45 but that should leave us an opportunity to hear from our witnesses and have good time for questions. I told our witnesses that i was to d lited to be talking about something other than the individual Health Insurance market. And im really quite serious about that because we know that the larger issues in health care are much more than the 6 of the people whom have to buy their Health Insurance in the individual Health Insurance market. So were glad t...

Happening tonight, growing tensions some areas School Districts acts of racism sparking serious schools concerns. Thanks for joining us tonight at Washington Township hoy School Students are trying to put their worries aside. And come together for homecomi homecoming. Thats where we find fox 29s Joanne Pileggi with more on the story. Joanne. Reporter they did put their concerns aside, and homecoming night here at Washington Township high in south jersey is one for the history books. There were n...