The Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. This morning were holding a hearing entitled implementation at the 41st century cures act responded to Mental Health needs. Senators cassidy and murphy were the leaders in this committee on Mental Health reform and in the senate. And those reforms included in our 21st century cures act. Senator murray is not here today so she asked senator murphy to fill in for her, and ive asked senator cassidy to chair most of this hearing, or at least until 11 45. I will come back and attended but but i think its appropriate senators cassidy and murphy share the hearings, especially given the extensive work in the area and their leadership and interacting the legislation last year. After our witness testifies, senators will have five minutes of questions. National, young adult with a fulltime job who also attends college. In june 2014, two days before 25th birthday experienced his first schizophrenic experience.
Continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the majority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. One of the phrases one often hears is, i hate to say i told you so, and its delivered with a feign sincerity but usually people actually like to say i told you so. I must confess that i have some of those feelings myself as repeatedly during the few hours the ways and Means Committee met rushing through the massive tax cut, the largest transfer of wealth in our nations history that will be paid for on the backs of our children and grandchildren with increased debt and benefiting people who dont need it. I said at the time that each week after this bill passed, if it did, we would have a series of embarrassing stories about mistakes and oversight and special interest provisions that were stuck into it. Actually the fact is that t
Reporter onesixth of the students lost their home in the fire. Today vanessa formerly of Fountain Grove blended it. It was a lot in one day. It was stressful but i have my family that is what i need. Reporter those lessons were never on the curriculum. They are now the lasting ones. In santa rosa, wane freedman, abc7 news. A standoff in the south bay as a man wanted by police has been hold up inside his hotel room. At the wyndham garden inn. When they tried to contact him. He barricaded himself in his room. Officers forced to evacuate an entire wing of the building. Some forced to sleep on sofas in the lobby, but the hotel continuing to operate as it continues. The police say there may be other victims. 24yearold luis cruz of fremont seen here was arrested last week. He sent several photos of himself to a girl who is a member of the congregation. The evidence of the suspects phone suggests that he might have sent pictures to other minors. We are learning two families are in fact relate
Which is one of the tragic consequences. Attics okay. Okay. Drug addiction is a tragedy. But it is a bigger tragedy when they die because of the drug war itself. Finally i should wrapi should wrap this up by saying that is futile is this drug warriors as destructive as it is that is not the real reason why we should call for the end to this war. I mean, we see the futility going to put him back in jail make sure he is incarcerated for the rest of his life without parole like they did the silk road guy. You know, for what . What is the. . They put him back in jail or they dont. Nothing is going to change any more than it has over the last four years. But the real reason that we want to end this war on drugs is not just the futility of it but because of the concept of human freedom. Ted mentioned russia and iran. Conservative examples of the war on drugs. Lets look at the leftist examples like cuba and north korea and china and vietnam all of which have drug laws and the drug war because