[inaudible conversations] welcome, everybody, todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant house rules some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webex. Since some members are appearing in person let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. You will see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when youre speaking in what is known in webex as active speaker view. At time is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely i know you are all familiar with webex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing. Whether they are in person or remote, as long as you have your webex set to
He was smooth and cool, he was good looking. He was smart. And he always was a complete package. The spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the four in this country. One of the great things about this is not too long ago we had a student come in i was looking for a biography of anna Clayton Powell. And there was not one. Although books about him were outofprint. So it is a privilege really to have king of the gas back in print and also privilege for us to have will be good here to talk about it. Welcome back king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Welcome hi and thank you. Wil it is always nice to be here. At this bookstore. They did treat me like i live in the neighborhood which i do. They treat me as if i come here and do all of my book shopping which i do. I also noticed that there are these posters. They are advertising the authors for the month of february. My picture is right in the center of the poster free it is so nice to have your picture on the pos
Me is the legal prescription of opioids. Ive two minor Health Things in my life in the last two years that i had earlier in my life. Both times the medical professionals were willing to give opiates like, i believe a months worth of opiates for something that had no business, under any circumstances, prescribing opiates and they wouldnt have five years ago. I guess ill start with mr. Botticelli but anybody else can chime in here. What can we do to stop in these basic things, id say what they were but i dont want to embarrass the medical professionals. They were par for the course. I mean one of the things say were not going to reimburse for medicaid, were not going to reimburse for medicare, were not going to reimburse if youre, you know, anything else the federal government is kicking in, for these sort of problems, no matter how much pain you claim you had, because people never used to have them. Or we could perhaps say even for cms say were not just not going to reimburse across the
Uguay are being asked to shoulder a heavy burden in responsibility, and there are real concerns about the Administration Setting aside intelligence assessments to deceive countries about the threat posed by the militants they are being asked to take in. That was certainly a finding of this committee, our investigation into the release of six detainees to uruguay in december, 2014. I want to thank mr. Jeff duncan of south carolina, the chairman of our subcommittee. The focus is on the western hemisphere. Ate Department Official overseeing guantanamo at the time wrote to the president of uruguay that there was no information about these six that that no information that they were involved in conducting or facilitating terrorist activities against the United States or its partners or allies. No information . They were known to have been hardened al qaeda fighters involved in forging documents, trained as suicide bombers, fighting at tora bora, committing mayhem, committing murders in afgh
Good afternoon, everybody. Listen, i am privileged to be here as a moderator, but from what these gentlemen have to say, i am going to step back. It is the easiest moderating job i have ever had because there are some fascinating stories and conversations they will have with you. One thing i did not know other than that i was a sixth grader at the time the president was killed, i did not know i did not study, at that time, about the Warren Commission, but i have come to know quite a bit of it. I actually, in a retaliation creation of a a mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald i prosecuted mr. Oswald. Former First Assistant with the Dallas Da Office was the defense attorney. So, i got to learn a lot with the assistance of my super paralegal who is here, lisa and anderson anderson. Let me tell you about the panelists. Wow is what you are going to say when this is all over. Judge burt griffin is a graduate of Amherst College and yeah law school. Yale lawhile school school. He served as a law cle