Human and Animal Health. This is about an hour 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good m good morning. The Senate Health education labor and pensions subcommittee on primary health and Retirement Security will come to order. Thank you for joining us today for the primary health and retirement subcommittee hearing superbugs. The impact of Antimicrobial Resistance on modern medicine. Thank you, especially to Ranking Member marshall to you and your staff shared commitment to preparing for presenting the Antimicrobial Resistance crisis in the United States. This is the type of partnership that drives results ultimately in congress. More than 100 years ago the discovery of antibiotics revolutionize modern medicine. Some experts considered penicillin the single most important drug ever created. Antibiotics alone have extended our average life can by 23 years. But the rise in Antimicrobial Resistance threatens to undo 100 years of medical progress. Minor infections could become incurable l
Africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century please in 1901. George white of north carolina. Before is a long time another africanamerican comes into the house and that is oscar dupree from illinois. We had a couple of rare artifacts from him from the 1920s and 30s. Before i launch into them, matt, tell us about oscar dupree. Almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress when there are no africanamerican to serve in the house or senate. That has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over time during those decades and that there is a critical thing going on in the south where african begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multidecade movement that would later be called the great migration. On which to store and you talk to and 1890s and runs through world war ii. It takes up momentum around world war i as there is a need in the north to fill industrial jobs and jobs that have been occup
Humiliation. So i know else we rebelled and used the written word to stand up for womens rights. No one else had our voice or future story. On g. W. Its been another testing week for facebook as it grapples with the fallout of a day to previously scandal tesla c. E. O. Ilan musk is among those who have chosen to delete their companys accounts from the platform and others like firefox creator mozilla speaker maker so in us have temporarily pulls their ads from the social networking site questions over the information Facebook Stores and passes on to advertisers have prompted lawmakers around the world including here in germany to promise. Were going to keep a much closer eye on Companies Like facebook and punish Data Protection violations quickly severely and seriously. The scandal came to light after revelations about the activities of Political Consulting firm cambridge analytic. The Company Reportedly misused the data of fifteen million facebook users to target selection adds to infl
President ial election a probe by the federal trade commission could subject facebook to major penalties. Police in spain have a rest of the alleged mastermind of an International Cyber crime gang it was the culmination of a three year long investigation of the gang is believed to have stolen as much as a billion euros and operated in some forty countries its techniques included using technology to change account balances and instruct cash machines to issue money to crimes committed were far reaching. Just to give you an example of how important it is in twenty thirteen this group managed to access practically every bank in russia the average amount each cyber attack for a million dollars. Is already there media. Authorities in several countries Work Together to snare the alleged gang leader and are hailing the arrest as a major victory in the fight against financial crime. Now to the problem of pollution and how a crackdown on dirty diesels in western European Countries is creating a