We dont have a gavel. Committee on constitution of civil rights and Civil Liberties are called to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. Welcome everybody to todays hearing, hearing on evidence not a field hearing. On evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Todays hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of a series of hearings that the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will hold over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the Voting Rights act 65 to consider other ways to strengthen that landmark civil rights statute. I am not sure why we say wee reinvigoration. Thats one of the words we toss arnold. It is not really a reinvigoration. It is more of a degradation that section four would cut out. We need
Im here with bo. And id like to acknowledge two additional coauthors in the room who collaborated on several parts of this very comprehensive report. In addition to that wed also like to acinformation the fact we dedicated this work to mark who recently passed away this year, one of the major meanters in drug policy. That said feptinal, yes, it is right now the driving force behind overdose degs in the United States. Today just to give you some breathe takeaways about the work weve been doing in the last year looking at fentanyl, the main key points here from this 200page report is that the nature and magnitude of the ongoing crisis is really like a traditional drug epidemic and is more so or better thought of as a poisoning outbreak. That said if we just limit our policy responses to the traditional approaches, these are likely to be insufficient and will condemn a lot of individuals to an early grave. Two points. This is new, unprecedented in our drug policy history and we need to st
We dont have a gavel. Committee on constitution of civil rights and Civil Liberties are called to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. Welcome everybody to todays hearing, hearing on evidence not a field hearing. On evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Todays hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of a series of hearings that the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will hold over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the Voting Rights act 65 to consider other ways to strengthen that landmark civil rights statute. I am not sure why we say wee reinvigoration. Thats one of the words we toss arnold. It is not really a reinvigoration. It is more of a degradation that section four would cut out. We need
Mastro, an assistant professor of Security Studies at the edmund a. Wilson school at Georgetown University and american scholar at American Enterprise institute. Shes the author of the cost of conversation, obstacles to peace talks in wartime. And she is currently working on a book about chans challenges to u. S. Primacy. Next we hear from a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and adjunct senior fellow at the center for new American Security and president and ceo of solarium llc, a defense consulting firm. Hes previously served as president of the center for strategic and budgetary assessments in a department of Defenses Office of net assessment and on the personal staff of three secretaries of defense. Hes the author of several books, most recently publishing the declines of deterrents earlier this year. Our third panelist is dr. Michael green who is a Senior Vice President for asia and japan chair at the center for strategic and International Studies csis as well as director of Asian S
Holocaust survivor testified that this week about holocaust era interest times. The Senate Committee is looking at both of legislation is need it to process flames that were not adequately addressed. By the International Commission on holocaust era interest times before it closed in 2007. Senator Lindsey Graham shows the committee. Todays hearing is going to be holocaust era interest flames. What to do about it. Difficult topic in many ways but i am glad we are having the hearing. Senator feinstein, i really i wont have an Opening Statement to refer to you. For small thank you mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing and today were discussing holocaust era insurance flames. Its interesting, before and during the second world war, many europeans purchased insurance policies to protect their assets and loved ones. While many of these individuals perished as victims of the holocaust. Those who survived, and the errors of those who did not have since attempted to collect the proceeds from th