Welcome news good evening, everyone. Welcome to the New York Historical society. Im the manager of Public Programs here and is always its a thrill to welcome you to our robert h net auditorium. Tonights program is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz distinguished Speaker Series and is always the would like to thank mr. Swartz for his support, which has enabled us to invite so many scholars here to New York Historical. I would like to recognize and thank our trustees, as well as all of out chairmans councilmembers who were with us for their great work and support. Tonights program will last one hour and include a q a session, a question and answer. As you came in, some of our volunteers in the audience were handing out cards and. If you didnt get one, Staff Members will be circulating through the auditorium in giving goes out and we will collect those later on and hand them off to the moderator so they can answer some of your questions later on. And also, there will also be able to s
Sros. Reporter the mayor is launching a plan to train staff and tenants at sros on how to use narcan fay sal sprays to save lives. This resident at an sro in the tenderloin says she wants to be trained. It is really sad to step outside your door every day and see all the, you know, the despair. Reporter jay hawkins also lives at the Cambridge Hotel on ellis street. He said he and his wife were saved by narcan after overdosing. Im so thankful. If it wasnt for narcan, i dont know if my wife would be here or not. Reporter this man tells me he worked the front desk at six different sro hotels. He says having narcan readily available is long overdue. Its a chance to buy time for them to get well and clean and sober. Reporter deaths from fentanyl, a pain reliever has been on the rise. In 2017 there are 36 deaths. In 2018 there were 89 deaths. More than double the year before. In the First Quarter of this had year, they have had 39 fentanyloverdose deaths. Janet ector is the manager at the Ha
1994 federal assault weapons ban. This is two hours. All. I apologize for being late. I really dont have any opening remarks and i welcome all of our colleagues here to these introductions andill turn it over to senator feinstein. Mister chairman. As you can see we have four nominees before the committee today. Id like to welcome the majority leader, thank you for being here. We have not had a Senate Confirmed director of the atf since march 2015. And in fact, weve only had one confirmed head of the agency since the director position was subject to Senate Confirmation in 2006. So im really very pleased that members of this committee will have the ability to question mister canterbury, not only on his record but also on his priorities for combating gun violence should he be confirmed to this position. I really have been at this for so long and ive seen us experience so many endless tragedies at the hands of firearms. From parkland to newtown, from San Bernardino to sutherland springs, f
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Bipartisan Policy Center and to our event this morning about positive solutions to the Central American crisis. First and foremost, you know, weve heard about the Bipartisan Policy Center and the immigration project. The Bipartisan Policy Center exists to bring in ideas from both sides of the political aisle to be able to address countries challenges. The immigration process seeks to do this in a whole host of different ways and i think this event is very much in line with the work weve been doing on convening individuals, ideas, and Different Actors to the immigration challenges that this country faces. The genesis of this event was in a report that was just put out that has policy solutions to addressing the crisis. You know, what we were thinking was how can we come up with a very proactive, pragmatic and comprehensive solution to whats happening at the southern border, but not only the southern border, but throughout the rest of the region .
Author of three books about workplace topics. They testified at a hearing by the house modernization of congress committee. This is an hour and a half. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving contention among Congressional Staff. I recognize muscle fibers to give an opening statement. One of the ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. [laughing] my apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution, and thats the Congressional Staff that is you. I think i speak for all of us on the dice and those yet to come, when i say we could do our jobs without the teams the people who work for us. Anytime i get a compliment since is nice job on this or that, my response is always, ive got a really good team and i feel lucky fo