Shes fought and i know because i fought alongside her for part of that time for raising the minimum wage, giving employees access to sick days and allowing workers to take family and medical leave. Shes been passionate on issues of equal pay for equal work. Shes been fighting recently tooth and nail to protect the aca for fair trade. I will tell you some of you may not know about rosa is if she has your cell phone number, shell call you. Nutrition and ge getting to the point to have days conversation, shes been working on this issue of child allowance or at least fully refundable tax credit which is pretty equivalent for many years. She is not a newcomer to this debate. And, in fact, people may not know this. Its a great little trivia point for those in the child allowance world is that thanks to rosa the Congress Actually voted on an amendment in 2003. Im old enough to remember on a fully refundable Child Tax Credit and the amendment failed. But that was the only time to my knowledge
And im very pleased to be here today to introduce a moderate a discussion with the president of the Federal Reserve bank of minneapolis, neil kashkari, he took office as the president and chief executive officer at the minneapolis fed on january 1st of 2016. As part of that rule he serves on the federal open Market Committee bringing the feds ninth districts perspective to mondetary policy discussions in washington. However i do want to preface the appearance by noting that after president accepted our invitation to speak here today, the fed adjusted its blackout period ahead of its Monetary Policy decision so that we are in fact within the feds blackout period today. President kashkari was very kind to keep his commitment to be here today but not able to talk about the Monetary Policy aspect of his position at the fed in todays session. That said, there is lots we can still talk about and i know we will have a very good discussion on the topic of too big to fail. But before that, a li
Crisis. Around two decades ago, it started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs and shifted more to heroin. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis and even more dangerous threat on our streets, fentanyl. Fentanyl is made in the lab and for many years it has been a powerful Pain Medicine used by patients with cancer or for those with extreme pain. I remember when i was injured in iraq a few years ago, Battlefield Medicine meant in recovery, they gave me lots of fentanyl patches. I know what its like to have the reaction to that. Its 50 times more potent than heroin. And 100 times more potent than morphine. Now, fentanyl has become a potent adticate to heroin, cocaine, or Prescription Drugs. This is way drug dealers stretch out their supply and spread out the number of addicts, sort of what people have done with msg in fruit. Users aunch dont even know that fentanyl is in the heroin. The fentanyl crisis is exceptionally dangerous because of its high poten
Crisis. Around two decades ago, it started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs and shifted more to heroin. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis and even more dangerous threat on our streets, fentanyl. Fentanyl is made in the lab and for many years it has been a powerful Pain Medicine used by patients with cancer or for those with extreme pain. I remember when i was injured in iraq a few years ago, Battlefield Medicine meant in recovery, they gave me lots of fentanyl patches. I know what its like to have the reaction to that. Its 50 times more potent than heroin. And 100 times more potent than morphine. Now, fentanyl has become a potent adticate to heroin, cocaine, or Prescription Drugs. This is way drug dealers stretch out their supply and spread out the number of addicts, sort of what people have done with msg in fruit. Users aunch dont even know that fentanyl is in the heroin. The fentanyl crisis is exceptionally dangerous because of its high poten
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