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On the Opioid Epidemic and testified on his research and what he has learned in the course of writing his book. This is two hours. , our witness is sam quinones author of dreamland, a true story of americas Opioid Epidemic. Senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since he is our only witness, if he wants to take more than five minutes to say what he wants to say, we would welcome that. , it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings and this is an unusual topic, one you say t...

The center for American Progress looked at the levels of progress states have made since 2016 to protect their systems from foreign interference. This runs one hour 25 minutes. Good afternoon everyone. I am president of the center for American Progress and i am thrilled to have you all here for one of the most important discussions we are going to have this year which is on voting integrity. On which we all rely for democracy. The topic of todays address is about the trust we have in our Voting ...

But after good afternoon everyone. I am thrilled to have you all here for the most important discussions we are going to have this year which is on the voting integrity and a system in which we all rely on for our democracy. In fact, the topic of todays address is about the trust we have in the Voting System which is central and fundamental to everything that we rely on for the government. Government. Ouon the system and be in fear election is under assault. It sounds extreme but it is true desp...

Banks, insurers, utility companies, big conglomerates, retail, you name it. If it has happened to you, do get in touch and tell us your experiences this morning. We will page should be to the american rock star, tom petty, who has died in hospital at the age of 66. We will pay tribute. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. We will bring you the developing stories today. Use the hashtag victoria live and, if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. D...

The Senate Committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our witnesses and senators will have five minutes of questions each. I am delighted to have the witnesses here. This is an Extraordinary Group of broad individuals of Broad Perspective about children and elementary and secondary education and we welcome your comments on how we implement the the new reauthorization of the elementary...

Education and labor and Pensions Committee on topics including attracting high quality teachers and the impact of the law in rural areas. This is two hours and 10 minutes. The Senate Committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our witnesses and senators will have five minutes of questions each. I am delighted to have the witnesses here. This is an Extraordinary Group of broad individua...

Allegation occurs of misconduct, we investigate it. And as agent sullivan or director sullivan specified, one of the things that occurs on many investigations is the investigation does not find any wrongdoing. When it does, we take appropriate followup action to hold the employee accountable. Well, i would like to point out that this is not the only affidavit like this. There are several others. And you know, were not going to release them, not going to enter them into the record or use their na...

Education and we welcome your comments on how we implement the the new reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act. This is our third of six hearings to discuss the implementation of the every student succeed act which the president signed in december. It is the Second Opportunity for this committee to hear from states, School Districts, teachers and principals and others that helped us pass this overwhelmingly bipartisan law and are today working together to implement it in a ...

Congress chose to leave unchanged a provision of culpability. This provision says School Districts have to provide at least Comparable Services with state and local funding to title i schools and nontitle i schools, but the law plainly states the School Districts shall not include teacher pay when they measure spending for of comparability. That has been the law since 1970. We didnt change it last year. There is an entirely separate provision known as provision, not supplant, that prohibits scho...

Undercover police admit to calling socalled radical muslims without trial, an al jazeera exclusive. And the simple technique saving the line lives of premate babies in india. We begin with breaking news from the past hour, that palestine status has been upgraded at the criminal court. It effectively opposit opens thr war crimes to be investigated in the territory. This comes on the same day that israel launched its own investigations into eight more alleged crimes by its forces in gaza this summ...