Order and for an opening statement. In the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic by opioids. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. Whielt new england and the regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic. Health officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all reported growing over dose deaths in those counties. The latest deaths is astounding. 91 americans died every day from an over dose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expect todays member state will bring to the forefront key insights and solutions on this critical issue. The energy in Congress Committee led several bipartisan initiatives. And the comprehensive Addiction Recovery alct and the 21st century act are now law at the state and local levels. Much needed policy changes are being implemented. The inflicted passage of kara and cures. As a result, patients now have greater access to evidencebased treatment, adiks
Those are only two of my good things. I dont want to tell you about the bad things. But he really helped me. I had had had somebody that guided me and he had a very, very tough life because of alcohol, believe me. Members of the u. S. House met recently about combatting the Opioid Epidemic. They also shared their own stories in dealing with opioids and other drugs. Subcommittee will come to order and for an opening statement. In the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic by opioids. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. Whielt new england and the regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic. Health officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all reported growing over dose deaths in those counties. The latest deaths is astounding. 91 americans died every day from an over dose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expect todays member state will bring to the forefront key insigh
How confident were you coming in . I was very confident coming in this race but sitting there throughout the day the confidence diminished quickly. So im happy to be holding this right here. Ron winchell. Gun runner rolls on the 34th breeders cup classic. One reason his confidence might have diminished throughout the day is horses near the lead in most of the dirt races were not doing well at all. Gun runner went totally against the grain with pressure almost at every single stride that he took going down the backside and the far turn. Bafferts instructions to collecteds jockey was go after him. And that he did. Yet gun runner was up to the task. And kudos to you. You were completely right at arrogate. You said that he just wasnt himself and he was unlikely to be himself today. You know, i love arrogate for what he gave us. Hes a champion. He took my breath away watching him win the dubai world cup. One of the greatest of our generations, but yes he goes off to the sunset on a kind of
Pallia in a secure a deal will come to order lifted to have a workforce of 60,000 employees with Security Operations of 450 airports and railroads and masstransit systems. I now recognize myself. Today we are meeting to discuss the role of keeping Transportation Systems and before we begin of a bite to welcome to thank the administrator for joining us this morning the range of important topics we have just been briefed in a classified setting by the d. A. Justice director general about specifics owner abilities of security and quite frankly i think i speak for all of us when they say we find that everything disturbing. We have to do more to confront the threat and i want to work with you to remedy the situation as soon as possible i am hopeful tsa is successful to implement those recommendations that should improve that effectiveness while all members of the committee share concerns i do want to remind the members the information shared must remain classified. Today 16 years past be ho
Becoming president. [inaudible conversations] the final program from the pit printers litfest in chicago is author lisa nap my. The author of ray and joanment. The man who made the mcdonalds for and the woman who gave it away. This is live coverage on cspan2. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Want to thank our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan 2s booktv. Were going to have time end to have a q a session so when the time comes, please like up at the microphone to your right so that our home viewing audience can hear the questions. With that, im going to hand it over to your interviewer, amy carr, associate mapping are editor for the Chicago Tribune. [applause] welcome to lit fest. Im here pleased to be here with lisa napoli. Former journalist, current journalize. Always a journalist. The author of ray and joan he man who made the mcdonalds fortune and the woman who gave it all wow. I love this title. Thick peo