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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, dem...

Ms. Satel welcome everyone to aei. My name is sally satel. I am a resident scholar here. As we know from reading the headlines, on a near daily basis, there is news of the fact that america has one big drug problem. And in fact, overdose from opiates Overdose Deaths come , from heroin and narcotic pills, are now the number one cause of accidental death in this country. So what can policy do about this . What can policymakers do about this . That is what we are here to discuss today. I am joined, very honored to be joined by very esteemed individuals. I think you know them all, but i will give ...

Solidly middleclass folks and more than 90 in bankruptcy because of a medical problem, a job loss, or a family breakup. The squeeze on the middle class was getting tighter, and more and more families were deep in debt. Bankruptcy was their last option to scratch their way back to dead flat broke and tried to build some kind of future. Credit Card Companies saw this and they figured out that they could boost the profits if the squeeze these people a little harder. So they wanted to change the bankruptcy laws so that hundreds of thousands more people every year would be locked out of bankruptcy ...

Decide by today whether to hear a bay area based freedom of speech case. The legal battle began in morgan hill five years ago on. Cinco de mayo. A year after a group of Mexican American teens paraded a mexican flag around campus triggering 30 fights between white and latino students. The white students were turned to turn their shirt inside out or go home. The justices will decide if a fear of violence was justified or if the First Amendment protects the right of students to peacefully protest at school the children and wife of the late Robin Williams is in court to fight offer the estate in S...

Gathered in this little room off the Senate Chamber, and he came bustling in and sat down with us. For the next 30 to 40 minutes, we all talked with him about health care while literally a dozen members of the u. S. Senate at one point or another poked their head in. And in those kinds of conversations you have with people that you really know, abbreviated little, did you look after yeah, i am on that and did you take, yeah, i got that. Back and forth, back and forth between him and his colleagues in the u. S. Senate. And when we left that day, i thought to myself, in a business where it is so...