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To listen, watch, and follow along on twitter at the Hashtag Hashtag npc live for our cspan. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism insti...

I tried to imagine myself in a house that was burning and i was not going to carry on business as usual. I thought the only thing i can do is put my whole body on the line, have regular actions, and include the historically noble thing called civil disobedience. Amy then becoming a dangerous woman, embracing risk to change the world. That is a new book by media legend pat mitchell who was arrested alongside jane fonda and 140 others friday. Mitchell was the first woman president of pbs, cnn productions, and of the paley cent f for mia. What do i mea by dangerous . Dodont mean being fear o or f...

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Proliferating so fast throughout the globe. And according to dr. Marie menard, who we will hear from, the number is estimated to grow to 115 million by 2050 as populations around the world age, although there is early onset as l but predominantly it is one of the byproducts of all of us ages and there seems to be a higher proclivity the woolder one gets. Once someone reaches 85, the chance of some form of dementia is one out of two. The total cost of addressing this is 818 billion. But as early as next year it is estimated that this cost will rise to at least 1 trillion. Thats per year. It wil...

Hours. Subcommittee will come to order. I apologize for the dee lay we have a series of votes and very one later too. I do want to get right to it. I want to thank you for being here. We open todays hearings there are 47 Million People in the world living with alzheimers. And other forms of de meng men shah. More than the entire population of spain according to a report by the alzheimers disease international. The number of victims who have alzheimers is projected to or likely to double every 20 years so we are in a race like few other diseases because it is proliferating so fast throughout th...