Speemac. [background sounds] subcommittee on Oversight Committee will now here comes the order. It is hauling hearing in china and the public help emergencies, to curb the Opioid Crisis. The premise of todays hearing is to examine states efforts and successes and adjusting the Opioid Epidemics as well as opportunities for future federal support. And just to let everybody know, doctor alexander, the reason why we are Getting Started a little late. The plane was delayed. But now the dr. Is on our way. We will swear in the witnesses when we get to that. If we have to do that later we will. The. [cheering]. Will now recognize the suffering Opening Statement. As i said, today the committee contends his bipartisan efforts to combat the Opioid Crisis. As we know, the countries in the midst of an epidemic unlike any of recent history. According to the centers for Disease Control and prevention, from 1999, 2017, nearly 400,000 people died from opioid overdoses. In 2017, more than two thirds of
The committee on homeland to get he will come t to order. Let me set the outset number of our members are still en route from the Prayer Breakfast this morning. They will join us accordingly. The Ranking Member being one of them. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the department of Homeland Security use of facial recognition and other biometric technologies. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a committee in recess at any point. Good morning. The committee is meeting today to continue examining the department of Homeland Security is use of facial Recognition Technology. The Committee Held part one of this hearing in july of last year, after news that thet department was expanding its use of facial recognition forth varying purposes, such as confirming the identities of travelers, including u. S. Citizens. As facial Recognition Technology has advanced, it has become the chosen form of Biometric Technology used by the government and industry. I want t
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Mckinney continues now on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Welcome. The Smoking Panel is certainly timely giving the rising crisis with a around. Well get to that subject eventually. The mic of the book entitled seven pillars, and the discussion heres a look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability and middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with around. The region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of forest and tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure of billions of dollars, this policy has more often than not a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is to find. Its been an absolute failure at the basic game was to foster stability and a better live for the people of the region. Of course the was ultimately responsible for our country news success or failure, are the people who live here. Let the catastrophe of todays middle east, raises a lot of q