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Cleaned our air and water, past the security and medicare passed Social Security and medicare. None of these changes happen overnight. It was not because a charismatic leader got everybody to agree on everything. It did not happen because of a massive political revolution. Actually happened over the course of years, of advocacy, and organizing. And alliance building. And dealmaking. And the changing of public opinion. It happened because ordinary americans who cared participated in the political process. [applause] so [applause] thats nice, i helped. [laughter] look, if you want to change this...

You see it on stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, the upper level low is off to the west, you see the moisture moving across syracuse and portions of long island there in new york. Its actually lifting to the north as we go throughout the rest of the afternoon. But having said that we are still in and out of the wet weather. The Flash Flood Watch in our region has since expired. We are underneath a Flood Warning for areas in delaware. Milford all wait down to allen dale included in the Flood Warning staying up until 2 30 this afternoon. Pockets of delaware have seen 4 to as high as 12 inche...

That mandate equal coverage for physical and Mental Health care. Mental Health Care Providers testified about difficulties in implementing a federal health care parity law. This hearing of the house energy and subcommittee on health is an hour and 40 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, if youll take your seats, well start. The subcommittee will come to order. Before we begin, i want to make a note that members may be filtering in and out throughout the hearing. Unfortunately, the condensed september session, there are a number of scheduling conflicts this morning. But we wanted to be sure to have t...

Affordable housing for everyone. Now, some latino advocates think the mayors speech marks significant progress on some key issues affecting latinos, but they also feel there is some room for improvement. Here to highlight some of those issues, daniel altschuler, director of research and Civic Engagement at make the road new york, and natalia aristizabal, the lead organizer at make the road new york. Good to have you both. Let me get your general overall impressions of the mayors state of the city address, daniel you first and then well break it down into specifics. On an overall scheme, in ter...

Whats next . Guest well those hearings i think were very helpful at educating members of the committee and other members of congress and the general public about the importance of this issue. Interestingly we have already scheduled a hearing on encryption before the apple fbi controversy broke out to the publics attention and we were right thing pleased with the presentation made by all of the witnesses at the hearing but i think the number one thing that comes across is encryption is a good thing and a very important thing and we have got to find our way through this not be weakening encrypti...