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Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome you to todays judiciary. On encryption excuse me thats not the right one. Tackling the Opioid Crisis a whole government approach and ill go ahead and start with Opening Statements from the Ranking Member and myself and i believe senator durbin has opening remarks and will die then to eyewitness testimony as well. Since 1999 more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading ca ....
Years now. We watched this in the aftermath of exposures about a collection by nsa itself, the agency unfamiliar to most americans and as we take off our 2019 conference, we find now even intelligence oversight is very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kick off by reports from the Intelligence CommunityInspector General. You have forthcoming next week, allegations and misuse of the surveillance act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings from the house Intelligence Committee. Even intelligent overseers now are the center in the way that the intelligence agencies began earlier. In a way that was unprecedented. So we have a special focus this year on not just the Intelligent Agency the self but the ....
Hayek auditorium here at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by form and as a contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfamiliar to most americans. And as we kick off our 2019 conference we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment preceding kick off in significant part by a report from the Intelligence Community inspector general. We have forthcoming next week ill breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, actually would be from the House Intel ....
Years now. We watched this in the aftermath of exposures about a collection by nsa itself, the agency unfamiliar to most americans and as we take off our 2019 conference, we find now even intelligence oversight is very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kick off by reports from the Intelligence CommunityInspector General. You have forthcoming next week, allegations and misuse of the surveillance act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings from the house Intelligence Committee. Even intelligent overseers now are the center in the way that the intelligence agencies began earlier. In a way that was unprecedented. So we have a special focus this year on not just the Intelligent Agency the self but the ....