Cspan. The Senate Health Committee Last week held a hearing on the federal response to the nations opioid epidemic. Witnesses include National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins and food and Drug Administration commissioner scott gottlieb. The Senate Committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. Todays hearing is about the Opioid Crisis we are facing and what the federal government is doing about it. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement. Then well introduce the witnesses. After the witnesses testimony senators will each have five minutes of questions. The senate has inefficiently scheduled three votes starting now, and all of us would like to hear the witnesses testimony. So well figure out what to do about that. But best thing to do is go ahead and get started with our opening statements. The Opioid Crisis is tearing our communities apart, tearing families apart, and posing an enormous challenge to Health Care Providers a
Potential deal. The white house responded by accusing the republicans of conspiring with iranian hardliners who opposed the negotiations. The letter there on your screen suggests any deal between president obama and the iranian leadership what amount to an executive agreement that could he and done by congress or future president. Read more at washingtonpost. Com. Senator Bernie Sanders spoke today at the National Press club. This is one hour. Good afternoon and welcome. My name is john hughes, i am an editor for bloomberg first word. And president of the National Press club. The club is the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. We are committed to our professions future through programs such as this and we work for a free press worldwide. For more information about the club, this is our website press. Org. To donate to programs offered to our clubs Journalism Institute visit press. Org institute. I would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending todays