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we will convene to discuss 5g workforce readiness and obstacles to broadband deployment in our country. i welcome our panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing today. we will hear from commissioner carr at the fcc, mr. jimmy miller, chairman of the national association of tower richters and president and ceo of the miller company inc. ms. lisa youngers, executive director of the broadband association. mr. harold feld, senior vice president of public knowledge , and ms. shirley bloomfield, chief executive officer of an tca, the rural broadband association. 5g is the fifth generation of wireless communications technology, as every member of the committee knows and as many more americans are learning. developing and deploying national 5g networks is critical for the future of the united states. 5g promises to create 3 million new jobs, generate $275 billion in new investment, and will spur up to $500 billion in economic growth. with exponentially faster connections, ....
capable cable television companies in 1979. today, we are brought to buy by these television companies who brought c-span2 viewers by public service. announcer: next, a senate armed services committee to assess global security challenges and the corresponding u.s. national security strategy. when this is included retired lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster, who served as national security advisor during the trump administration. this is 2.5 hours. chairman reed: let me call the hearing to order. good morning. today s hearing is an opportunity to hear from leading nongovernmental experts regarding the global security challenges we face and the strategy the united states needs to avoid conflict and to advance its national security interests now and in the future. our witnesses are dr. thomas wright, senior fellow with the brookings institution and former national security advisor, retired lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster. welcome to both of you, and thank you for your will ....
Good morning. Ourrtainly want to express support for and thoughts and prayers for all of the victims of the recent hurricanes and, in the state of florida our colleague and, raking member of this committee senator nelson. He ended sen. Rubio there today, as they should be he ended senator rubio are there today. We certainly want to express our support. This committee has been working for some time in a bipartisan fashion to address the advancement of economist vehicles. I want to thank Autonomous Vehicle. Unfortunately unable to join us today, we put a lot of work into this effort to date. I look forward to continue to work with my colleagues to introduce and pass bipartisan legislation. Broadthis committees jurisdiction over transportation interstate commerce and Vehicle Safety, we are wellpositioned to oversee a draft and emergence of this transformative technology. Beg ....
That occurred last year, is occurring again this year and will continue to occur next year. Each year is getting worse than the previous. In my home, we will see approximately 800 drugrelated deaths in 2017, which is an increase from our most devastating year, last year, 2016, when we saw approximately 660 people die from drugrelated deaths, up from 370 the year before. Nearly 9 to of these deaths will be due to opioids of some kind. Prescribed pills from which the crisis originated and grew from, heroin, fentanyl, and now the newer analogs of fentanyl. Its nationwide Public Health emergency which is simply out of control. Ohio is one of the hardesthit states. Appalachia, the New England States are also particularly hardhit. In the fall of 2011, my office alerted our county executive to an alarming trend and the rise of heroinassociated deaths. In the subsequent months and ....
State. This month, a Police Officer in ohio had a near fatal sentinel overdose facing overdose following routine traffic stop. ,e put on his mask and gloves arrested some individuals, went back to the playstation and the police station, noticed there was powder on his shirt, he brushed it away. He is a big man, and he fell to the floor unconscious and overdose. Canadministered nor immediately, but he was not enough, they had to rush into the hospital where two more narc an doses were administered and luckily his life was saved. He would have date have died if he had been alone. He also said, what if you got home and hugged his kid . This, it is devastating our communities and causing danger for Law Enforcement and First Responders. Isntanyl hundreds of times more potent than heroin. It can be deadly. We also know about ....