of the great recession by early 2010, they had passed a major part of the president s domestic agenda, the affordable care act, obamacare, if you will. bringing health care to tens of millions of americans. the next item on their agenda was another historic piece of legislation. a desperately needed climate bill to address the growing threat posed by global warming. democrats had already coalesced around the bill that was written by two democratic house members, then congressman henry waxman, and ed markey. in washington and around the country, that bill became known as the cap and trade bill. after a central provision in the legislation to put a cap or a limit on carbon emissions and businesses trade or sell their emissions excesses to each other. it wasn t the most far-reaching proposal that democrats were pushing for at the time, but it wasn t a half measure either. had it passed, the cap in trade bill would have been the single biggest legislative attempt under dressing c
Americans also want to know why american ceos and executives continue t basic responsibility that theydeaths every day of the year in this country. And that was representative mike synar, a democrat of oklahoma. In 1994, at a highly publicized hearing on tobacco. And this week on our series. Congress investigates. Well, it was in april of 1994 that ceos Tobacco Companies went before congress as part of an investigation into Health Hazards posed by their products. Hour hearing was controversial. And it led to toopanies admitting their products were addictive. Industry followed. Joining us fhe tobacco debate and the 1994 hearings is elise payne, director of the d. C. Office of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Elise bean we had been debating the impact of Tobacco Products for decades. By that point. About 1994 that brought this all together . Well, i think the key was an announcement by the food and Drug Administration. And commis kessler that they had evidence that the Tobac
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This week on global three thousand were off to the german capital which attracts young tourists in droves and this man shows them around me one of our berlin globals mauritanias Darling National park is a wildlife hotspot but it didnt used to be like this we find out about its transformation. But first we had to india to learn more about young girls and mary shame which romance rarely plays a role. Forced marriages can be nothing short of devastating for the young girls involved early marriage frequently means early motherhood and that often means dropping out of school this form of human rights abuse is not limited to a few countries either its a global issue in fact around seven hundred million women and girls alive today were married off before they were eighteen and more than a third when i was even fifteen. The world leader when it comes to child brides is india the un estimates that nearly half of all indian women a married off before theyre eighteen. And this is men near a con a