Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome you to todays judiciary. On encryption excuse me thats not the right one. Tackling the Opioid Crisis a whole government approach and ill go ahead and start with Opening Statements from the Ranking Member and myself and i believe senator durbin has opening remarks and will die then to eyewitness testimony as well. Since 1999 more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americ
What appears to be the crypt of an antique pistol. It pokes up out of his jeans over his mouth west southwest native shirt. The day before he died he made his last direct plea to the tribe in the video again about the artifacts. We will finish our time with this. Crouching in the doorway of one of the stone refuge. He tells the camera about his native bloodlines. Moving on from his native credit. Is time he said or he seemed to be saying to everyone in the final days. It is time for them to throw off the bia. To become an independent nation without them. He takes off his gloves he tips on his heels. Ibm believe in the american people. I believe in the native americans. It is time for them to stand up and throw off the federal government out of their own nations. I hope to see you soon. Now looking down and looking at. It drops away. Maybe on the same side. We are not enemies. Thats all i have to say. There is a whole other bird passage. At the very beginning. When the refuge is finally
Vote the presiding officer have all senators voted . Any senator wish to change their vote . On this vote the yeas are 95. The nays are 2. Twothirds of the senators voting having voted in the affirmative the resolution of the ratification is agreed to. The majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the senate is not in order. The presiding officer the majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the democratic leader and i want to take a few minutes here to point out to everyone that our colleague, the senior senator from vermont, just cast a truly historic vote. Of course the tax treaties are significant, but im talking about the fact that senator leahy just cast his 16,000th vote of his senate career. We know of no single statistic that can begin to capture such tenure, but this figure comes close. 16,000 votes cast for his constituents. With numbers like that, senator leahy has already left towering figures like our late colleagues ted stevens and ted kennedy in the dust. Now hes
Countriesly western not to do this. We are protecting the integrity of the boat so that when you vote, your vote will be counted and not diluted by illegal and fraudulent votes. Here is the main problem with voter id. It is not so much that voters are being asked to show identification. Everyone walks around with something on their person that identifies who they are. The problem with voter id in has beentes where it implement it since 2010 is these states have very strict parameters with respect to the type of voter id that is allowable and accepted heard what we found in our research is the types of ids that many of these states are saying is allowable and accepted is the kind of id that is much more difficult for individuals in certain groups to obtain. Africanamericans, other minority groups, the elderly, the students. Even in texas we found they refused to accept a student voter id even though they would accept a license showing you are registered to carry a gun. With voter id is
Already struggling with debt into further difficulties. And Princes William and harry visit a Memorial Garden for their mother, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her death. Tropical storm harvey has made landfall for a third time in the us, as the countrys southEastern Region grapples with an ongoing Natural Disaster which has left about 20 dead so far. The storm has moved inland now to louisiana and you can see that from the satellite imagery. Laura trevelyan is in houston in texas and joins us now. Welcome to a flooded area of houston where the road behind me has been turned into a slipway for boats. There are so many rescue boats being launched, many manned by volunteers. This neighbourhood has been flooded, people have abandoned their homes and cars and what is more because where we are is just below the reservoir is outside of houston which are virtually overflowing as received so much rainfall, there are timed releases from the dams and the water level in this already flooded