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Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, adam, and thank you everyone for coming here. I look out in the audience and see all kinds of friends and colleagues out here. I so appreciate you coming, im going to sippingle out one person from the voice of america, alan high, who is great history from voice of america kept me from making an error in the speech im about to make. I need to thank him right now. Second, id like to acknowledge my predecessor as the director of the voice of america, david enso...

Before and against the proposal. This is two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning. The subcommittee will come to order. I appreciate folks joining us today. This is our first subCommittee Hearing of the 114th congress in the rules committee. Id like to thank my good friend, the gentleman from florida, hastings, for his support of this hearing. I would like to thank on his staff our subcommittee staff Ranking Member staff director, molly larson and mr. Cody for his help on the rules committee and jane...

Us such that moms and dads and aunts and uncles and grandparents and look at families and say these kids, adults have more of a tendency to become addicted to drugs and alcohol or not . I dont want to say theres a profile but certainly a Family History of Substance Use disorder, whether its alcoholism, which is so common, its still the most common form of Substance Use disorder, can predispose subsequent generations. Early experiment agent with things as such as cigarettes can be a suggestion th...

Certainly makes you think about it very carefully and watching the film on women and womens right is what is this reconciliation all about. And that is about an afghanistan that works with the rule of law and that supports the rights and responsibilities of all citizens, but particularly women. On the questions of reconciliation im sure they are still high on the administrations agenda but the principles remain very much the same. The second point you asked me to talk about our the elections. He...

Who were working Identity Theft cases who are working to help Identity Theft victims and literally having these individuals stop in midstream and move to telephone answering how do you complete a return and what have you, and which causes immense delays in helping victims of Identity Theft which as members of this committee know is a massively growing problem and especially if youre the subject, if youre the victim involved is very frustrating. And so its just a point, again, of its a zero sum g...

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A and that action has cost us dearly. It has cost all of us dearly. And so i believe that the investments that we have planned to continue building afghanistans economy, to continue building its capacity of its people and to continue to set it on a path for its own self sustainability is a critical opportunity that now more than ever we have to recommit too. Thank you. [applause] thank you all. Were trying to pack a lot in todays we dont have much time for question and answer, but i think we hav...

GPs are missing an opportunity to champion brain health, writes David Ensor Dementia is a condition that is widely misunderstood by many people.1 Admittedly, my knowledge of dementia was limited until my late wife, Susan, received the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. That’s when it became all too real. When I’ve spoken to other people who’ve been affected by dementia, the word “inevitable” often crops up. Yet to describe dementia as an inevitable part of ageing would be inaccurate....

A plaque honoring Voice of America's headquarters in Washington as a historic site in journalism was unveiled Thursday, with current and former newsroom leaders present to affirm the importance of the outlet's editorial independence. The Society of Professional Journalists, or SPJ, designated VOA's Washington headquarters as a historic journalism site in 2022 and formally handed…

At the Daily Beast, Michael Moynihan attempted to overcome the tendency of journalists and celebrities to make Nelson Mandela a secular saint. Moynihan recalled that when Margaret Thatcher died, these same people denounced her for here "indulgence" of right-wing dictators like Agosto Pinochet in Chile, who allowed his country to become a democracy. ABC called her reign an “elective dictatorship.” NBC reported several times that “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead” became a popular iT...