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My name is jayish, the dean and director of the immigration justice clinic here at American University Washington College of law. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you to the law school and i offer that welcome not only on behalf of the law school but on behalf of our cosponsoring institution, the American University center for latin american and latino studies led by eric herbburg and dennis stitchcom and the American Immigration Lawyers Association and our Planning Committee representatives. Again, i thank you for everyone who has been [ applause ] yes. Thank you. For all of the hard work th...

[inaudible conversations] good morning the subcommittee will now come to order. Welcome to everyone that is here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for an opening statement. According to dhs National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. Thirtythree states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and in the district of columbia have legalized for adult use. State laws and federal policy are 1000 miles apart. The federal governments still strictly prohibits even restricting legitimate medical research. Widespread availability of can...

Abrams with the Commonwealth Fund, and we thank them for their since medicaid was the medicareside program in 1965, it has grown into one of the most farreaching programs in our country, in terms of the number of people it serves as low as their health and life circumstances, and the cost of the program. It is run by the 50 states and territories within federal guidelines and financed by both the state and federal government. So while medicaid policy has National Implications it of course has major implications for states and their citizens as well. As we know, major changes to the Medicare Pr...

Includes medicaid administrators at the state and federal levels. This is about 90 minutes. Hello, everybody, and welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah dash and the president of the alliance or Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you here today. For those of you who are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. I want to say hello as well to those in the audience are watching us live on cspan this afternoon. And to those are joining us on twitter u...

Includes medicaid administrators at the state and federal levels. This is about 90 minutes. Hello, everybody, and welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah dash and the president of the alliance or Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you here today. For those of you who are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. I want to say hello as well to those in the audience are watching us live on cspan this afternoon. And to those are joining us on twitter u...