Correspondent about what we can expect also coming up chinas president xi jinping makes his power move communist Party Members vote to make his vision for the country part of the constitution will she though lead china to become a global superpower. After the deadliest bomb attack in somalias history a generation thats grown up with civil wars saying enough is enough there were going izing to demand peace. And christiane although adds another trophy to his collection the portuguese star has been named divas footballer of the year after a trophy laden season. Im brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show it has been a month now since germany. Voted in a new parliament and today the new lawmakers will come together for the very first session were still waiting for a new German Government Coalition Talks just started to bring that together last week here in berlin so what can we expect in the Parliament Today well first of all were talking about the biggest parliament ever in germany th
The committee will come to order without objection. The chair is authorized to declare a recession of the committee at any time. The hearing is the annual report of the bureau of consumer for natural protection. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an Opening Statement. Not that we need a reminder, but if theres one thing that the president ial campaigns of both parties have shown us, that the American People are indeed angry. They have a right to be angry. After seven years of obamanomics, they are suffering through a failed economic recovery. Americans are even angrier though at having their lives increasingly ruled by out of touch washington elites. Every day they see their liberties slipping away as washington grows more larger, more distant and more arrogant. As Thomas Jefferson warned, they are sending swarms of officers to harass our people. The poster child of jefferson is the cfpb. Its director, our witness is, neither elected nor accountable to the American People
Distinguished cochairman, senator wyden for his opening remarks. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. In early august, the finance committee released the final report on the bipartisan inquiry we undertook to examine the irs processing of applications for tax exempt status. Our investigation looked back at the period between 2010 and 2013. The committee reviewed 1. 5 million pages of emails and documents and conducted interviews with more than 30 irs officials. The finance Committee Inquiry colleagues was the only bipartisan inquiry on either side of capitol hill. What we found on a bipartisan basis was alarming bureaucratic dysfunction. Many applicants for tax exempt status were treated badly. For example, between 2010 and late 2011 a total of 290 applications for tax exempt status had been set aside for review. Only two applications had been resolved successfully. Not 200. Two. That was unacceptable mismanagement. The investigation, however, did not find any evidence of criminal wrongd
Dramatic rise in the use of heroin, which belongs to the same class as painkillers, opiods. In fact, four in five heroin users, new heroin users, started out by misusing Prescription Drugs. Then they switched to heroin, so, this really is a gateway drug, the Prescription Drugs, become a gateway to heroin. Between 2002 and 2013, the number of heroin related deaths in america nearly quadrupled, although the number of heroin overdoses is still far exceeded by the number of legal Prescription Drug overdoses. So, this crisis is taking lives. Its destroying families. Its shattering communities all across the country. Thats the thing about Substance Abuse. I doesnt discriminate. It touches everybody. From celebrities to College Students to soccer moms to inner city kids. White, black, hispanic, young, old, rich, poor. Urban, suburban, men and women. It can happen to a coal miner, a construction worker. A cop, whos taken a painkiller for a work related injury. It could happen to the doctor who
Proposal to restrict the free speech of certain groups of americans by rewriting 56yearold rules governing the activity of 501c4 social welfare organizations. The irs subsequently went through them after widespread bipartisan opposition. I know we disagree on the need for changes to the rules governing c4 organizations and i know that youve committed that no new rules will take effect before 2017. But this leaves open the possibility that the irs will make proposals this year or next year creating confusion and uncertainty regarding the free speech of certain groups and their ability to engage in 7 00 activities like nonpartisan Voter Registration or candidate forums. Can you tell the committee whether any new proposals will be released before 2017 . And if so, when you expect that to happen . We are as i noted following up on a recommendation of the Inspector General who said that the facts and circumstances standard which has been used for the last years is confusing and was part of