Can i alert my colleagues that are here to introduce individuals normally we would turn to you and let you do that. But this meeting is has some more controversy than most hearings have so this is the way were going to handle it. Im going to make an Opening Statement, a little longer than usual. Senator feinstein will make a statement thats longer than usual. Then because of the two states that are involved, and for different reasons, but coming to the same conclusion, normally we dont have members speak, but i felt i ought to give the courtesy to both senator kennedy and senator said he wanted to speak about the controversy and his nominee. Then im going to turn to senator franken and senator franken will have up to five minutes s that okay . Youre going to introduce people, but i would like to get the controversial statements out of the way first. That makes sense. Okay. Congratulations to all the nominees and to your families and everybodys welcome at the committee. Two weeks ago, i
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During the holidays, too, but the plastic currency is being used as part of a massive fraud being fueled by the Opioid Epidemic. In an on the money investigation Contessa Brewer found Stores Across the country are beg targeted easy summon inside some of the countrys biggest retailers theres a shadowy world of commerce, crime and drugs, and at the center gift cards. Are gift cards currency you can use to pay for drugs . Yes. Reporter by all appearances, these four women could be tidying up what looks like a college dorm room, but this is no university. Its rehab. That worthlessness, i mean, that guilt and shame that i feel every day. That i chose drugs over my son, every day. These women arent students, they are patients, struggling with crippling addiction. Ive ghef in italy stolen. Repor they sat down with us at a drug Treatment Facility in jacksonville, florida. 23yearold kristen booths drug of choice, oxycodone and heroin and shes been arrested twice for gift card fraud. I would tak
We begin with gift cards. Its an easy gift to buy at major retailers and to give during the holidays, too, but the plastic currency is being used as part of a massive fraud being fueled by the Opioid Epidemic. In an on the money investigation Contessa Brewer found Stores Across the country are beg targeted easy summon inside some of the countrys biggest retailers theres a shadowy world of commerce, crime and drugs, and at the center gift cards. Are gift cards currency you can use to pay for drugs . Yes. Reporter by all appearances, these four women could be tidying up what looks like a college dorm room, but this is no university. Its rehab. That worthlessness, i mean, that guilt and shame that i feel every day. That i chose drugs over my son, every day. These women arent students, they are crippling addiction. Ive ghef in italy stolen. Repor they sat down with us at a drug Treatment Facility in jacksonville, florida. 23yearold kristen booths drug of choice, oxycodone and heroin and sh
During the holidays, too, but the plastic currency is being used as part of a massive fraud being fueled by the Opioid Epidemic. In an on the money investigation Contessa Brewer found Stores Across the country are beg targeted easy summon inside some of the countrys biggest retailers theres a shadowy world of commerce, crime and drugs, and at the center gift cards. Are gift cards currency you can use to pay for drugs . Yes. Reporter by all appearances, these four women could be tidying up what looks like a college dorm room, but this is no university. Its rehab. That worthlessness, i mean, that guilt and shame that i feel every day. That i chose drugs over my son, every day. These women arent students, they are patients, struggling with crippling addiction. Ive ghef in italy stolen. Repor they sat down with us at a drug Treatment Facility in jacksonville, florida. 23yearold kristen booths drug of choice, oxycodone and heroin and shes been arrested twice for gift card fraud. I would tak