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Against an epidemic brought to us by opioids. It does not matter where you live. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. While new england and the ohio valley regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic, Health Officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all report a dwroeg number of Overdose Deaths in those counties. The latest figures from the cdc is astounding, 91 americans die every day from an overdose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expected tos members will bring to the forefront key incites on this critical issue. In the Previous Congress the energy and Commerce Committee led several bipartisan initiatives to help address the epidemic. Theyre now law in providing resources at the state and local levels. Much needed policy changes are being implemented. The passage of both kara and cures. In fact, as a result of kara patients suffering from Substance Abuse now have great
Search bar. Now we take you to the u. S. House of representatives. On the agenda, ideal this is like covered on cspan. Live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will come to order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. February 13, 2018. I hereby appoint the honorable mark meadows to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 8, 2018, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman fro
Level of business engagement. If you go to Front Range Community college where ive been in colorado you will see they have an advanced manufacturing partnership. Its a partnership between the federal state and local government. You see that the curriculum is being devised in partnership with industry. You actually see that there are businesses whose workers are professors. And what they tell me is one of the reasons they love teaching is they cherry pick the best students. And thats fine. Thats how you build your talent pipeline. And so we need to continue the efforts. And, again governor fallin thank you for your leadership on behalf of Community Colleges. We had four years worth of what we call tax grants. We have since dismissed our acronym director because its a clumsy acronym. What it stands for is using Community Colleges to catalyze change in the work force system. What i learned from these grants is that oftentimes businesses werent talking enough to educators. And so in los an
Ook tv. And sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. Looking ahead here on cspan3, health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Burwell testifies on capitol hill about reports that consumers are intentionalley falsifying information to get subsidyies on the health care exchange. And legal challenges to the health care long. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker meets with voters in iowa. And later a discussion on combatting Prescription Drug abuse at the state level. Obama Administration Officials were babbling on capitol hill testifying on the Iran Nuclear Agreement. We see here in politico the fourhour hearing turned testy at times. In one bit of sparring, scott perrey of pennsylvania said iran is like a crocodile or shark thats about to be given more teeth. And they should have thought of a stronger agreement, such as a treaty, no matter what irans leaders wanted. Here is the congressman in another exchange with secretary of state john kerry. Said we dont have a better opt