Changes to the Supreme Court and federal judiciary. Later, Jessica Anderson from here to Jackson Anderson from Heritage Action for america talks about top issues in campaign 2020. Is the washington journal for september 9. Joe biden is expected to be in warren, michigan today to talk about jobs and the economy a day before President Trump is expected to visit the same state. The trend campaign announcing stops in reno and las vegas, nevada. Senateant the expected to take a test vote tomorrow on something that would authorize five hundred billion dollars of Coronavirus Relief, far smaller than democrats would like to see. When it comes to congressional spending, is that something you would like to see . Let us know. If you are unemployed, call 202 7488000. If you are a Small Business owner or employee, 202 7488001. All others, call us at 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003 and post on twitter and facebook. Set up theto conversation is zach cohen with National Journal and it cove
With the conducting of normal activities in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic. Here is how you can express your thoughts. For those in the eastern and central time zones, 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. For you medical professionals in the audience, it is 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003 washington journal. You can post on our twitter fee d. It was the Gallup Organization posting a poll yesterday asking people what they would like to see as far as returning to normal before they themselves return to normal activities. 80 said the one thing they would like to see is a mandatory quarantine for anybody testing positive for covid19 followed by improved medical therapies for treatment of covid19. 73 of those participating said they had to see a significant reduction in the number of new followed by 68 saying the availability of a vaccine to prevent covid19 and 61 saying they needed to see widespread testing to identify and monito
The Senate Committee will come to order. Todays hearing is about the Opioid Crisis were facing and what the federal government is doing about it. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and well introduce the witnesses. After the testimony they will have five minutes of questions. The senate has inefficiently scheduled three votes starting now and all of us would like to hear the witnesss testimony. The best thing to do is go ahead and get started with the Opening Statements. The Opioid Crisis is tearing our communities apart, tearing families apart and posing an enormous challenge to Health Care Providers and Law Enforcement officials. The amount of opioids prescribed in the United States in 2015 was enough for every american to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. This is according to cdc. In 2016 there were over 7. 6 million opioid prescriptions for pain in tennessee according to the Tennessee Department of health. That means there were 11,048 opioid presc
Now, the confirmation hearing for labor secretary nominee Alexander Acosta. He takes questions from the Senate Health education and pensions committee. Nearly three hours. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [no audio] Senate Committee on Public Health and education will please come to order. Senate committee on Public Health and education will please come to order. Were holding a meeting on mr. Acosta for secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement and then introduce the witness. Then introduce the witness. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two five minute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple had reinvented the mobile phone, just 10 years ago. A microblogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale gl
Screeria nigeria. Next education secretary arnie duncan on the president s 2016 budget request. Then a house hearing on the immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. After that, u. N. Ambassador Samantha Power on a house hearing on the president s 2016 request for the u. N. And foreign operations. Labor health and Human Services and education. He told the committee that sequestration is impacting learning and needs to be addressed. This hearing is about an hour and 40 minutes. The appropriate appreciations subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services and education of the latest agencies will come to order. Glad to have certainly secretary duncan with us today and secretary, thank you for being here and thank you for conversations we have had prior to this hearing today that we look forward to working with you. You know one of the longterm commitments to the National Government, even before it was the government under the constitution, was to do things that encouraged education. I