Of this week following the second president ial candidates debate of the 2020 race. Join the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. Week, ehouse panel held two days of hearings on the use of ecigarettes by young people. We will first hear from child advocates, medical professionals, and to high school. Students. And thetified on vaping marketing of this devices disproportionately targeting young people. Good morning. The subcommittee will come to order. 28,etween 2017 and ecigarette use and youth rose 78 in one year to the point where over 20 of High School Students now date. The lingering question is why and what was the role of dual juul . The panel assembled today will help us address these questions and frame our discussion for part two of this hearing tomorrow at 2 00 p. M. When the juul founder will testify. What makes it irresistible to children . Tobaccominent advertising scholar will help us to answer that question. After today, we hope to understan
Round of questions. We expect you to answer them fully and to the best of your ability. The commission is fully formed and five members. According to that commission, deaths and injuries and Property Damage if incidents stemming from Consumer Product cost the nation more than a trillion dollars. Thats an economic cost, the cost to human beings and lives and families is even much more and unknowable. You have a mandate to protect consumers from risks associated with 15,000 Consumer Products including household products, toys, Sporting Goods and more. They were established by the safety act in 1972. The jurisdictionally independent agency chargesen with forcing various federal statutes geared at protecting consumers. Central to the commissions function is the use of voluntarily Consumer Product standards instead of mandatory regulations, requirements when appropriate. This approach allows the agency to have a collaborative working relationship with consumer advocacy groups, manufacturers
From u. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission members on hazard quus products and consumer safety. They spoke about recent recalls including a fisher price sleeper that was associated with the deaths of more than 30 infants. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good morning, everyone. The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to todays oversight hearing on consumer Product Safety Commission. Thank you to all the commissioners for being with us today. I am meezed that were having an on time start. We have votes at 11 30. There will only be one round of questions. That doesnt mean the witnesses cant pretend they dont have all the answers in the first round of questions. We expect you to answer them fully and to the best of your ability. The commission is fully formed and five members. According to that commission, deaths and injuries and Property Damage if incidents stemming from Consumer Product cost the nation more than a trillion dollars. Thats an economic cost, the cost to human
Much. Things a lot. You can watch live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan. The senate is about to gavel back in for more debate on defense programs and policy this afternoon. Shortly we take live to the floor of the u. S. Senate for more debate. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The presiding officer the senator from texas. Mr. Cornyn madam president , are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are not. Mr. Cornyn madam president , yesterday the Senate Overwhelmingly voted to proceed to the National Defense authorization act by a vote of 868. Excuse me, 866. Thats about as overwhelming a bipartisan vote as weve had lately, and its for good reason. Because this bill represents one of our most fundamental duties as a United States congress, which is to authorize military expenditures and to provide our men and women in uniform with the resources they need in order to protect the American People. The Defense Authorization bill would authorize funding for the d
On Media Freedom professional journalism and the basic tenets of the right for people to know and understand the reality of what is happening in sudan the network deplores the decision and assures its audiences in sudan and globally that will continue to its coverage of sudan despite this political interference by the sudanese authorities. As a member of griffin a Nonviolent Resistance Movement in sudan he joins us via skype from khartoum pretty shape or time very much so let me just pick up on this the fact that the government is shutting down aljazeera is that trying to send a message through to the press there what do you what do you make of that. Yeah this is the least turning point like you moving the freedoms of press and trying to have the world not see whats happening is a big deal. And that i think is a turning point because what happened after april 11th and the collapse of the government suddenly the government allowed journalists from all over the world to be a citizen to c