Find a full schedule on your Program Guide or watch online anytime cspan. Org history. A healthy democracy does not just like this. It looks like this. Americans can see democracy at work citizens are truly informed. A republic thrives. Get informed straight from the source on cspan unfiltered, unbiased, word for word the nations capitol to wherever you are because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan empowered by cable. Execs ceos from Community Lending develop meant organizations testify on the impact organizations have an Economic Opportunity but they discussed needed investment in underserved lowincome communities. Bridging the gap between rental markets and homeownership. This runs an hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. I like to call the subcommittee on housing transportation and Community Development committee to order print out to thank you as always senator you and your staff are working with us on this hearing. What a focus
Good afternoon. I like to call the subcommittee on housing transportation and Community Development committee to order print out to thank you as always senator you and your staff are working with us on this hearing. What a focus on Community Development Financial Institutions or cdfi and how specifically cdfi can promote Housing Development and Economic Opportunity. I think both center at lummis and i believe everyone in this country should have the freedom and the opportunity to build the lives they want. This is the American Dream and an essential Building Block for pursuing this dream the people have access to capitol and lending and resources so they can buy a home or build a Small Business or get an education. We also know not everyone has equal access to capitol and Financial Services this inequity drives big gaps for disparity, opportunity and wealth which is will be sooner country. Communities of color and Indigenous People and rural areas often do not have the same access to c
And we streamed it online. Lets get right to those latest details. In the last hour and a half, the sonoma sheriff raised the death toll to 14 in that county alone. Now, 24 people are confirmed dead in all the Northern California fire storms, and there are still 463 active missing persons reports. Additional resources allowed firefighters to make progress on containment and we have more on y at in just a moment. Son two alleged looters were rosest the yesterday. Lets look at the mandatory evacuations which are now in effect for parts of geyserville, sonoma, and santa rosa. There are at least eight different fires burning in napa, sonoma, and sow la know countyings. Now more than 100,000 acres have been destroyed. S nears map, you can see how far its expanded into three different bay area counties. Well go back now to nbc bay area sky ranger over the area and you can see lots of active smoke, the flames seem to have died down just a little bit, but we know somethings burning bc bayall o
The 2016 we learned from the New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year that all the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and likely, that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year, 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could mean your 1 million. 183,000 lives have been lost in the us from overdoses between 2015. Thats about 50,000 we lost over the last, 500,000 we lost over the next decade. The roots of this crisis began in 1980 when a letter to the editor in the journal of medicine was misinterpreted as evidence. It was unlikely someone become addicted out of 4000 cases a center was only four connections. Years later the joint Commission Following the american medical associations recommendation assessment established standards for Pain Management interpreted by many doctors as encouraging the prescription of
Good morning everyone. Today the subcommittee of oversight and investigation holds a hearing entitled combatting the Opioid Crisis battles in the states. Now, make no mistake the term combatting and battled are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of devastation around every corner of the nation. In 2015 there were more than in the u. S. , more than 33,000 deaths involved in opioid. 24 increase from the prior year. Overdose death rate in 2015 was almost seven times the rate of deaths from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. For 2016 weve already announced from New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdose and that is more in one year than all the names on the Vietnam Veterans memorial wall. And likely that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could be near 1 million. More than 183,000 lives have