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brooks on book tv on c-span2. you can listen to every after words program as a podcast, find it where you get your podcasts. house speaker nancy pelosi held a briefing earlier to discuss the $1.9 trillion covid-19 economic aid plan. the speaker was joined by three democratic colleagues. ms. pelosi: good morning, everyone. as we deliver the benefits of the american rescue plan and we re hard at work to lower health care costs and expand access to care which we have seen a great need for since the start of the pandemic osmen tuesday we ll serve the 11th anniversary of the passage of the affordable care act. at that time, and since i ve said that that was a great pillar of economic and health security for the american people. on a par with social security, medicare, and medicaid, and the affordable care act. in this rescue plan, we have some initiatives to expand the affordable care act and that s why i m so pleased to be joined by three of our colleagues, representati ....
this afternoon. today, they re working on 19 dealing with ls veterans health, water infrastructure, and post offices renaming. live coverage of the house. peak house will be in order. the prayer this morning will be ffered by the guest chap rape, by the guest chaplain. i stand before you in prayer and memory as i m reminded of solomon king of ancient israel who would preside over the most unusual judicial hearing, one in which two mothers would lay claim to the life of one child, a child they would each insist to be their own. this passage allows us to see solomon s wisdom as preserving the nation as we are sadly remind sod soon after his death that the kingdom is split asunder. i too am reminded of abraham lincoln when he spoke with prophetic pressure yens, a house divided cannot stand s preyens, a house divided cannot stand. from this we would soon learn that our future lies not in enemyity but unify. unity. from the book of leviticus, from your torah, teaches ....
and chairman gowdy, we re honored to be a part of the house oversight and government reform committee s efforts find meaningful solutions to the opioid epidemic. thank you-all for being here today. it is no secret that we re in the throws throws of a crisis that s reached epic proportions throughout our country. baltimore is no exception. in 2016 we average nearly two fatal opioid overdoses in this city per day. this is a problem in desperate need of thoughtful answers. as both an anchor institution and steward of health care for our local communities, hopkins takes this problem very seriously. we see firsthand the devastation that substands care at our sister hospital to the east,, the number of opioid overdose patients seen in our emergency departments doubled last year. doubled. this crisis is very much a part of our reality. what are we doing about it? as an academic medical center, we re addressing the issue through the lens of our mission of research, clinical ....
cyber espionage. the hack of opm is the latest example. do the chinese steal our naval technology and apply it to their navy, and as a corollary to that, are you aware of any evidence concerning china stealing u.s. civil nuclear technology and diverting it to its nuclear navy? sir, i m not personally aware of any instances of another nation stealing our nuclear technology and applying to their navy, including china. that may be happening, i m not briefed on any intelligence that would implicate that. i think it s well-understood that there is cyber espionage that occurs. we have concerns from time to time about our cleared defense contractors for example in their cyber security. i think frank kendall and at&l is working hard to tighten that up as best we k. i was reflecting on this earlier we talk about nuclear matters. as a sort of graduate of the navy nuclear propulsion program. one of the things that has intrigue said me intrigued me over the years, the element of ....
it s going to predict how it would react under a stress event. and so was the key one of the key issues is what how are investors anticipating this? is this part of their investment strategy? and do prices reflect it, and do practice risk management practices reflect that? i think that there are two issues we have to separate as we address the questions you offered. is there a liquidity crisis? the first is are we in the midst of a transition from one type of market to over. if over night, we say that ever bond dealer who works in a bank can no longer deal bonds, the next day it will be a little harder to buy bounds. no question about it, and sell them as well. but what will happen afterwards, the banks will sell their operations to hedge funds to other companies, to the employees themselves and they ll get reorganized to find the capital and make money, because there are opportunities to make money when people demand liquidity, by the way, there s no such thing a ....