Guest he was. He was probably the leading lights, by the way. Not just in the family, but generally. Educated the president , some hollywood stars, as you know, very well published law. E First Step Act into this landmark piece of legislation not only short and prison sentences for some offenders and provided muchneeded drop chaining to prisoners, it changed the viewpoint of criminal Justice Reform in the republican party. Theled the bill to raise felony theft threshold in florida to 1500, which had not been raised since 1986. At that time, i felt alone in wanting to have such changes to our criminal Justice System that were definitely needed in the state of florida. That bill died in 2017, but when i saw what the president accomplished, when i saw what many said never would or could be done, it renewed my beliefs that true criminal Justice Reform, which keeps our safe but allows x offenders to come home and be successful, can be achieved in the United States. Gaveresidents leadership
Hand in hand to insure the Election Security of every single election because i believe the most secure lections are actually the ones held at the local level. Host whats the most outstanding issue as of to day . Rep. Davis there is a lot about standing issues when it comes to election infrastructure. We need to look at the next most secure way of voting is going to be, test those new methods. We sat down with folks who are testing somewhat of a block chain type voting to where you can do it on your phone. Its been used in certain elections in West Virginia. Those are the types of innovations that could make our elections even more secure, but we shouldnt just throw off the table like the democrats have tried to do. Host mr. Starks, go ahead. This week the house had a debate over a bill that the democrats sponsored called the shield act. You have your own bill that is counter to that. I wonder if you can talk about what areas you think there might be a chance for democrats and republic
Welcome to the texas book festival. Im joined today by two incredible authors who are going to help us unpack American Health care. Katherine eban, who whens an investigative journalist, a Fortune Magazine contributor and an Andrew Carnegie fellow. Her articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking and coercive interrogations by the cia have Won International attention and numerous awards. She lectures frequently on the topic of pharmaceutical integrity, bottle of lies the inside story of the generic drug boom, her second book, was published bihar per collins in by harpercollins in may. Based on a decade of reporting, the book takes readers into manufacturing plants where the majority of our low cost generic medicine is made. Educated at Brown University and oxford where she was a rhodes scholar, eban lives in brooklyn with her husband, two daughters and newfoundland dog romeo. Dr. Marty makary works at Johns Hopkins university and author of the New York Times bestseller un
We were talking backstage about the gala tonight and i reminded them i been to the gala a number of times i know there are a bunch of friends here too people ive known an awfully long time are here with us stop i want to thank you all for supporting this really important institution. Heritage is indeed schooled many generations of tapremarket believers and i was a trustee on a think tank in kansas called the Kansas Public Policy Institute we would read heritage reports all the time to try to make sure we were getting it right and trying to get it right for the state of kansas in the same way you are doing that for washington. The last time i had the privilege of speaking in front of heritage audience was in may of last year i had been the secretary of state for a number of days. I was already missing the cia it was a much quieter much less public space. We had just pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal i laid out 12 conditions including that iran and the Program Release to stop terrorism
And after she was a little bit more coherent and in less pain i texted her and said an account how many pills you have left because i knew shed been prescribed hundred 20 nor does, thats a 7. 5 milligram nordic own tablet and when, thats what shed been described , thats four pills a day for 30 days read bad news is what that is. What you might need to come out of it, i was interested to knowhow much. The reading picks up when she answered me, she texted a little while after i asked writing i have 73 ofthe hundred 20 remaining. He used well under half of what shed been prescribed. I should have been surprised but by this point i begun to see the data on overprescribing for surgery. Practitioners in all different feel are examining their prescribing practices, pushing with the average prescription is and then attempting to find out how many pills patients and up taking. Results like my moms are not uncommon. A particularly striking result was published in 2017 by researchers at the unive