hi there, welcome to the latest iop speakers series event trump biden and the battle for america s future. my name is katelyn van balen. i m a fourth year student from new jersey studying public policy and the managing editor of the gate the iop s undergraduate political magazine. we re thrilled to be joined today by two national political correspondents for the new york times jonathan martin and alex burns whose new book. this will not pass trump biden and the battle for america s future covers how the stability of american politics has been racked by two years of perpetual crisis before joining the times mr. martin was a senior political writer for politico and a writer for the hotline in the national review. he also coauthored a best-selling book on the 2012 election and frequently appears as a political analyst on television and radio. mr. burns before beginning his work at the times covering the 2016 election was a reporter and editor at politico where he covered the 201
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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
You see that in jobs, you see that in living standards, and the lowest rate of inflation we have had for many years in our country. The economy has turned around. We turned that corner. Things are getting better, and we must not let labor wreck it. Thank you, mr. Speaker. The suffering of constituents of mine, lake lisa brady who like lisa brady, who lost her baby, is hard to imagine. They have had years of struggle to get to the point yesterday where the report puts recommendations for the local hospital and the wider nhs, will he honor their struggle today by saying the government will implement those recommendations . I think it is an important report. That is why the secretary made the statement he did. We want to see these changes put in place. What i would say is, well you problems in the nhs, and we saw this with mid staffs and the case he mentions, it is important we do not sweep the problems in under the carpet, but we send in inspectors, we have this new post of chief inspect
Were giving them Broad Authority here. Is there anything that cuts on your side you see as opposed to the other side of reading this language . One think i can cite and that is that the statutory history in this case is that the predecessor version to what we commonly have before us simply said that states were required to prohibit the amounts which prevent attainment or maintenance. Just prevent. Looking at that language theres nothing in there that suggests costs can be taken into account. What Congress Said when it added the words significantly contribute to nonattainment and interfere with maintenance is because it addressed cassation of bad air quality effects and it was shot fro duesing cost but relaxing the causation standard, saying shouldnt be Something Like butfor. Its enough it contributes significantly to nonatapement. Mr. Keisler, you have a statute that does not have any language about no costs allowed. That also does not have what the American Trucking Association Statut