President to submit a balanced budget to congress. Over in the senate, members also come back at 2 eastern for general speeches. Then at about 5 30, a vote on the bill to reauthorize the violence against women act, a Domestic Violence law that expired in 2011. A final vote on that could happen later this week. Members of both parties are attending retreat this week. As a result, the senate will be out on tuesday and wednesday, and the house no legislative business on thursday or friday. Live coverage of the house on cspan and the senate here on cspan2. Host and youre watching the communicators on cspan. We are on location in las vegas at ces international 2013 at the Las Vegas Convention center. Heres some of our interviews that we did this week. Well, now at the ces International Show in las vegas were joined by representative zoe lofgren, democrat of california. Representative lofgren, what are you doing at ces . Guest interestingly enough, this is my very first trip to ces. Ive had
Colonized in some ways is because of a bunch of old white end men in europe couldnt get it up. [laughter] so there you have sex, drugs and International Relations in a nutshell. [laughter] but i tell the story because what we consider drugs is important. And so when the mostly white males of european ancestry who drafted this 1961 International Convention got to exempt all of their favorite drugs, the ones they were partial to and got accustomed to; coffee, alcohol, tea, you know, all these things that they loved to do. But coca was manager that indigenous was something that Indigenous People used, indians. And it was those racist attitudes that made them say, you know, this is forbidden. This is terrible stuff. But, in fact, coca in its natural form is, actually, i think, a very beneficial plant and relatively harmless. Its a very, very, very mild stimulant, if my opinion. In my opinion. From personal experience i compare it to two cups of coffee, basically. And so the thing thats har
Thank you. We are going to be talking about coffee, and cola and the ingredients in cola. His latest book examines a series of highly addictive substances that have caused many deaths through much profit and how they make their way into the United States and what the u. S. Governments role has been in ensuring that they come into this country. This evening, we are pleased to be joined by two drug policy experts as well. Without further ado, i would like to hand it over to the panel. [applause] thank you so much for coming out here. I am so excited. It is great to be here in new york. Im going to start off by talking about my book, and then we will go into what focuses this week and what is going on with the u. N. That basically prohibits this around the world. Back in 2004 and 2005, i did a book about marijuana. It wasnt about how to smoke weed, but an educational book about how they might talk to their kids about a difficult subject. So that is why the format is kind of like an illust
To, you know, the need for, you know, more videos or youtube downloads. And in reality thats not what we should be thinking about as a society. Its really to enable, you know, the kinds of interconnected health care, energy, education policy. And its all going to be mobile. And if its mobile, you need spectrum. Host charla rath, Vice President of verizon for wireless policy development. This is the communicators on cspan. The communicators is on location in las vegas at ces international 2013, the Technology Trade show. More programming next week. And now, Ricardo Cortes talks about attempts to prohibit the use of coffee and coca in the u. S. And around the world. Mr. Cortes describes secret deals made by top u. S. Antidrug official harry answer linger pushing to banco cas use worldwide. This is a little over an hour. Okay. Um, and so tonight we are pleased to welcome Ricardo Cortes to discuss his latest book, a secret history of coffee, coe that and cola a tale of coffee, cocacola, ca