Doctor to rooms and how substance of views has depicted his, family testified on the Opioid Epidemic, and recommendations on how to treat, it and it also addressed Insurance Fraud schemes with witnesses from the government as well as Addiction Treatment centers, centers. I usually dont start these meetings until the Ranking Member comes, but because the service that we have, congressman cummings plus the fact that we had to change this meeting to adjust to that schedule i would like to get going and its going to be kind of an erratic sort of operation because i have another meeting that i have to and, attend, so i will start out and i know that you want to introduce one person, are you under a time constraint . Because if you are i will give you the courtesy of going ahead. Mister chairman i can wait until irregular mark. So i will welcome the panelists today to our hearing, on the one Year Anniversary of this act, this landmark statute, which many of us had a hands in developing, resp
Recent high profile case involving treatment scams in ohio, and investigations and partnership with the fbi and Law Enforcement generally, leading to the indictment of six people this year, all six pled guilty to medicaid fraud. Some have called for developing more by which the public could evaluate the effect in the Treatment Programs. Our last witness, has gone a step further not only identifying it core standards, he believes are key to any successful program, but also launching quality rating systems. This is uncharted area treatment sector, and we look forward to hearing from him, the progress thats been made there, with his Non Profit Organization. We are here today because two Many Americans have lost too many loved ones to addiction. Americas Opioid Crisis has left a trail of broken hearts and homes across our country. We are here to help communities get on a path towards health and wellness. Millions of americans are desperately seeking a path forward. Working together, we can
Over the next hour and 15 minutes, well hear from local authors about the areas history, politics and literary landscape. We begin with a visit to Montana State university and a look inside the collection. A well known antenna author, 16 memoirs and novels, he was raised here in montana. At her invitation and possibly a little bit about what we can do if she decided to deposit the collection with us and came back and wrote a proposal and a key feature of our proposal was that we said we would digitize the entire collection in less than a year so because digitize the entire thing is available on the internet for anyone in the world to see. Primarily we have documents. We have a lot of sound recordings and a lot of photographs, diary entries, obviously many books manuscripts for some books we have as many as seven manuscript versions so a lot that goes to the writers process colin medical records, all of that. He loves manual typewriters. We have many photographs of him in the archives a
Tell us what the Clean Power Plan was all about. Sure. So the Clean Power Plan was aimed at controlling Greenhouse Gas emissions from the power sector which is the second largest source of Greenhouse Gases currently in the u. S. And it took systemic approach to cutting emissions, so power plants around the country had a range of options they could use. Strategies like increasing efficiency or they could switch which kind of fuel they were using, for example, switching from goal to natural gas or they could also do emissions trading so they could use credits to koubt counteract any coal consumption. So the plan was well under way because it was announced by the president , the epa in august of 2015, and this week the administration, epa, announcing new rule, overriding the Clean Power Plan, the Affordable Clean Energy rule. Tell us about that. What do they propose . Sure. So this is a much more narrow rule than what the Obama Administration proposed. Instead of this broad menu of option
We also welcome your comments on twitter. Tweet us cspanwj. Down thursday, one of a number of final rulings for the court as they wrap up their current term. This is from the wall street journal on that case, the headline, justices let cross stay on public land. Int is the piece cross maryland, dedicated to 49 servicemen who died during world war i. The wall street journal writes that the Supreme Court voted 72 ,o allow a cross to remain claiming that it holds a secular meaning that comports with the constitutional separation of church and state. Justices in the majority issued six separate opinions, offering different views on the intersection of government and religion following an impassioned dissent from the courts two most liberal members been it drove home the divide between conservatives and liberals and within the courts ideological wings. The point of our question this morning, whether you support or oppose the decision, here is what the usa today writes. They are saying the q