The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and calm that all might have confidence in your faithfulness to us. That no matter what lies ahead your grace is abundantly available. Now we approach a week during which all americans will gather to remember who we are. A nation generously blessed not only by you, our god, but by courageous ancestors faithful allies, and the best good wishes of people everywhere who long for freedom, who would glory in the difficult work of participative government and who do not enjoy the bounty we are privileged to possess. Bless the members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our response. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The sp
Good morning, the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. This hearing is entitled examining jewels role in the nicotine epidemic part one. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. After years of steady decline, use, nicotine use has suddenly reversed course, seemingly overnight. Between 2017 and 2018, a youth ecigarette use also known as vaping, rose 78 in one year to the point where over 20 of High School Students now vape. The lingering question is why and what was the role of jewel, the countrys dominant maker of ecigarettes with almost 80 of ecigarette market share in the dramatic rise in vaping . The panel assembled today will help us address these questions and frame our discussion for part two of this hearing here tomorrow at 2 p. M. When jewel founder will testify. Today we will examine what exactly about jewels advising and marketing makes it irresistible to kids . Th
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Hutchinson. Thank you everybody for joining us today how we can better serve our nations greatest and that is the young people. We have a really difficult transition and challenge we cannot afford either as a society or and economy to leave any young people behind so as many as 5 million young people between the ages of 16 and 24 are currently not enrolled in Educational Programs or participating in the workforce. I believe very strongly as governor we have a responsibility to do everything we can to reach the youth and give them avenues of opportunity to reconnect and engage them with continuing education and in a lot of cases of course there are many barriers to making that happen including economic mobility and providing them with the opportunity for their future. Some of the barriers include help homelessness violence in poor health how outcomes in the criminal Justice System. We are tackling these barriers one by one and a great example is the bill that i signed literally just thi