Topics include head injuries, concussions, opioid addiction, and doping at the olympic level. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Sexual abuse and dealt with at the olympic level. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning and welcome to todays hearing. It is no exaggeration to say that americans love sports. We love watching them, playing them, collecting Sports Memorabilia and even arguing about our favorite teams and athletes. Whether it is watching the super bowl with friends, joining an office bracket pool for march madness or stretching out for the turkey trot 5k races on things giving morning. And a pickup Football Game later that afternoon. We love our sports personally, i made doctors and a packers fan. Some of my best moments have been spent competing in sports or cheering on my two daughters at their meats and games. This committee is committed to promoting american success and international competition. Ensuring exciting play in that the professional leagues providing opp
Pharmaceutical drugs in the United States and that is why many Peoples Health care plans have risen so people have to pay more out of pocket for what they need to treat various conditions. Because there has been a lot of anger that has emerged as a result of that, there is a fair amount of discussion in congress about possibly finally doing something to try to understand why prices are so high and to perhaps consider price controls to reduce them. The pharmaceutical industry, one of the biggest injuries in the United States in manufacturing, is trying to stop legislation that would hurt their part of the sector. We looked at all the lobbyists that are convening on capitol hill to try to protect their bottom lines and how the net effect may be that legislation may not pass that will significantly curb the growth. Pedro let me read you a line from the story to help people understand how much investment from the industry is going on. We are building a profit on the line. The Health Produc
Succeeds act, the 2015 law that change the way the federal department of education oversees state boards of education and local School Districts. The House Education Committee held a hearing. The committee on Education Workforce will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays full committee hearing. I think our panel of witnesses and are Committee Members for joining todays discussion on the application of the every Student Succeeds act, essa. Essa can be considered a milestone for k12 policy because of the monumental shift in the role states and School Districts would have in the future of education. Essa sought to achieve to specific goal for k12 education, autonomy and accountability. State and School District were given independence when creating a k12 Education Program that works best for the own students, ending a washington knows best approach to education. Additionally, essa specifically prohibited the federal government from influencing states adoption of particular sta
Happens when america retreats from the region and we dont play of the role of posing a balance of power and when we let the countrys fight it out between themselves. It is not just our interest in allies and our interest in allies like jordan and israel but it is because this is throughout syria and turkey, and isis is trying to aggressively recruit United States citizens to join. It is believed that the weapons came from the turkish government. Senator cotton again, i have not seen other reports, so i cant comment on that. I did ask about if there was a mistake if we had a residual force agreement, and there was the agreement on blaming maliki on that. Why couldnt we have forced an agreement, why was that completely squandered . What was your view on that and could we have done something differently in 2011 and how do you feel as someone who served in iraq or someone who has finger on the pulse of how the military feels . Senator cotton i put responsibility chiefly with barack obama a
Themarket has discounted positives and of the negatives of trump toss collection. Trumps election. Vonnie looking forward to a lot of that coverage all day. In the u. S. We are about 30 minutes into the trading session. Sa next trading action abigail mixed trading action. The dow opened lower. The week is relatively young but the dow was on pace for its second weekly decline. A little bit of a bearish trend that as you can see both the s p 500 and the nasdaq are trading slightly higher fluctuating between small gains and losses. We are seeing a continuation of the lack of conviction that is marked trading action for u. S. Equities in recent days. When you take a look at some of the havens we have seen a haven been more recently. We have the 10 year yield trading higher marked in red telling us the safe haven bonds are selling off a bit. Yields rising helping the dollar index up. We do have the dollar against the yen rally. We have gold trading slightly lower if that stays that will bre