Trends. This is cohosted by the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy, just getting underway. Offer solutions t economic ad social policy research. We havent assiduously pursuing this mission since 1968 when president johnson created urban to help if i weight programs and strategies aimed at improving the quality of life in central cities. And we bring expertise and research on the impacts of housing and policy in community developers, the Financial Capacity of families, insights about state and local governments, finance, and we work with policy makers in translating identifying policy problems and helping them develop policy solutions. So todays forum represents a convergence of our mission in expertise and leadership of our partner, the Lincoln Land Institute. On the going concern about municipal physical health and the connection to the housing crisis, and through the two Panel Conversations we will explore how the housing crisis in particular has affected the Fi
And we are pleased to have three members of the house today to talk about their report and here reactions from notable experts on the programs. But first, and perhaps most importantly, we are going to start outside of washington. And hear from experts in the field of helping lowincome americans moving up. They work in places far removed from the halls of congress about their work has informed some of the ideas contained in the steering committees report. I have a special affinity for these outside of washington experts, as that is where i worked prior to coming to washington. I spent 19 years working in social Service Agencies in the state and city of new york and i have some idea of the dedication, hard and wisdom of people who work in peace programs, and i always love to be among them. So im very pleased to welcome and introduce to you the first panel which features three 3 mef communitybased organizations. First will be owed l. Cleveland the Administrative Officer for the Baptist Ch
Death penalty and my name is dale. I teach law at georgetown and to run a Supreme Court practice. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where its going and i cant imagine a better group of panelists. Over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigants in the country. And has been for a number of years traveling throughout the country to bring these cases. He had a big one in the Supreme Court or couple weeks ago ago which may be i will tell you a little bit about that hes been teaching at Yale Law School since 1993 which yesterday was significant because that was my first class on the Death Penalty which he taught and was just a marvelous in its rationale figure and its a delight to be here with him. Roy adams is the director of the center for effective justice of the texas Public Policy center. Mark does interesting work in the cause of the criminal Justice System and is making the case for a conservative c
Our time. Recogniziining texas. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much, i am pleased from this moment of history to join my colleagues who have come together with a similar and very important purpose and thats to save lives. The Ranking Members on the committee dealing with crimes. We see tl after math over the years of a wrong policy. Let me simply add to the record of startling facts. When an average day in United States, more than 650,000 opiate prescriptions are dispensed and 3900 people used nonprescription use of opiates. 78 people died from an opiate related deaths. 55 billion in health and social costs related to prescription opiate abuse each year and opiate poisoning. This Conference Committee is on the right direction. There are worthy bills. The problem is huge between 2014, almost half a Million People died from drug over doses based on the statistic that i just read. Also to fulfill our obligations for funding, i am glad to be a coresponsponsor of committee, comprehensive of o
House caucus participated. Host how many guest there were eight fewer. There were 188 at that time. A couple attending to family emergencies. A couple out of town for scheduled trips for other reasons. Only a handful of members who are democrats who are also aligned with the n. R. A. Ncluding the only two members, linda from texas on our ndependent line. Host your piece was titled inside the house, houses first social nonfilibuster. Why isnt there a filibuster procedure available in the house . Guest it goes right to the very heart of the civics lessons we all took in high school. The fundamental difference between the house and the enate. All the rules you and i think about every day when we Pay Attention to the house are designed so the majority can get what they want unless they misunderstand what they want and the vote goes against them. They have designed it to be a regular routine march through the legislative process. They organized how many amendments are going to be offered. I