Good morning. The committee will come to order. Thank you for joining us today. Im pleased to welcome federal trade commissioner Joseph Simons and commissioner chopra. Batting. 100 so far . 1000. Its the cupping im thinking of. It has been more than seven years since the ftc has appeared before this Sub Committee. Youre right. Its overdue, and ftc is one of the most important agencies this Sub Committee funds. And its only gotten more important over the last few years. You have enormous jurisdiction. Policing most sectors of our economy for bad behavior. You crack down on abusive robocallers. They investigate data breaches that expose sensitive personal information. They analyze consolidation in the health care market. Helping to limit abusive pricing for essential drugs and health services. Perhaps at the front of mind they are the top cop on the beat for Consumer Privacy violations and other issues in the Technology Sector. This is something everyone worries about these days. Democra
Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of economics at west point where he also was the director of the u. S. Armys office of manpower and analysis advising Senior Army Leaders on Office Retention and marketing. My favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the Award Winning stateoftheart Americas Army game which served as a Key Recruiting tool for the service as well as the virtual army experience. Im expecting that you should all ask him questions about that aft after. Excuse me. Among his military awards and decorations, ser
Media companies monitor stories and features about cannabis. This is just over three hours. Morning everybody. I would like to welcome all of you here today to the Second Annual National Cannabis policy summit here at the new dm and i would like to start the day by thinking our nonprofit Advocacy Partners without whom this wouldnt exist and many businesses in this industry would not exist. I would like to thank americans for state access, the aclu of dc, baltimore Harm Reduction coalition, bridges coalition, and bear with me, the long list, the cannabis cultural association, cannabis voter project, dance safe dc chapter, dc vote, dc mj, dc normal, delaware normal, doctors for cannabis regulation, Drug Policy Alliance, headcount, hip, Law Enforcement action partnership, Marijuana Policy project, maryland normal, mission zero, the minority cannabis is and is association, the National Cannabis bar association, National Cannabis industry association, normal, pittsburgh normal, students for
Pivotal moment for the cannabis movement. Theres so much excitement for the progress we have made and for where we are pushing to go. And if we do this right, by ensuring that we address the legacy of the failed war on drugs and center our work in Restorative Justice there is no stopping us. Thank you all for your leadership, keep up the good work. Hey, hey,. The war on drugs has got to go. Hey, hey,. The war on drugs has got to go. What do we want . Justice. When do we want it . Now. What do we want . Justice. When do we want to . No. Family, i just love those chants which i have either led or decided in demonstrations along with dpas damp why . Because they capture the essence of the man that i have been asked to introduce. I am mcgeachy 25, the tiny for group llc. I also commence a justice round table. Coalition over 100 organizations working in washington to advance, promote Justice System transformation. For 16 years, i worked for George Soros Open Society foundations and open Soc
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