Steve served as Forensic Toxicologist at the New York Chief Medical Examiner’s office on 18,000 cases. In 1973, he and his mentor, John Broich, developed Methadone, the first oral liquid dose non-abuseable narcotic. Stephen set records by gaining both FDA and DEA approvals in under a year, making Methadone the fastest to-market pharmaceutical launch ever. He then launched the modern-era of testing for recreational drugs by creating the first lab detection procedures and implemented them at scale with Mifflin Pharma and Spectrum Labs. After successful exits from both companies, Steve earned his law degree while getting more drugs and medical devices approved worldwide for Unilever. He went on to leverage his extensive medical science and FDA law expertise obtaining FDA approval for over 250 medical devices and a dozen drugs in forty countries. This facilitated 200 start-up companies that collectively employ over 10,000 people. He served as FDA advisor to NIH for many years and in 2016 was a representative to the UNGASS United Nations colloquium to adjust the ‘War on Drugs’ Policy. Founder/CEO of Regulatory Affairs Associates since 2000, his teams provide “invention to approval” regulatory consulting in toxicology, formulation, and clinical trial management. To study cannabis science directly, Steve co-founded Pinnacle Labs in Troy, Michigan as the first and only cannabis-testing laboratory to meet stringent FDA drug standards. He also served as Chairman of both the USA Cannabis Laboratory Standards Setting Committees and the Cannabis Clinical Trials Standards Setting Committees for FOCUS/ISO, the Foundation of Cannabis Unified Standards.
Founder/CEO of Pure Green, Steve was awarded the first Michigan LARA cannabis-processing license to open his cannabis-centric consumer products company, July 2018 in Inkster, Michigan. Multiple additional cannabis growing licenses have been awarded within 10 months, head count exceeds 50, build out is adding 100,000 sq. ft. indoor cultivation + 40 acres outdoor cultivation in The Thumb region. Multiple patents are actively under review for breakthrough controlled drug dosing and consumer products. Pure Green has run 8 cannabis clinical trials and is currently running 4 additional studies. Steve has begun the FDA review process for 4 cannabis drugs: for PTSD relief, opioid addiction and pain/anxiety relief for dogs. Always mentoring people, Steve’s TEDMED and TEDX-Detroit videos have encouraged many entrepreneurs.
"Oh, my, Primila done sold Massa down the river!" "Is she gonna report it on her income tax returns?
On this exciting special episode on Cocktails & Popcorn, Pramila Jayapal drank the Judiciary Juice and jumped on the "Colored" Revolution to re-write civil rights history by first:
Re-writing Medicare For All behind closed doors;
Letting The House Bill Number historic placeholder for Medicare For All, 676, slip;
Letting 676 get slapped on a NATO war Bill;
Bringing back for-profit corporations into health care;
Doing it all over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday;
Refusing to #sayhisname.
So, why would Pramila sell down the river to the cotton fields the only person endorsed by Martin Luther King, Jr., to carry on his legacy for universal health care for all by bastardizing and erasing the legacy of the author of Medicare For All?
Let us set up our assumptions:
Someone gave her a mirror and whispered in her ear that she could be the first woman to Chair Judiciary if she did this;
Someone else let her know she would get a "get-out-of-jail-free" card for participating in an espionage operation in Judiciary with Sheila Jackson Lee, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the rogue ass crew?
She is a "Legal Genius" (trademark pending);
All of the above.
Stay tuned, #cyberwars are real, and so is the "Colored" Revolution.
The House Democrats have decided that their single payer Medicare for All bill will not carry the HR 676 number.
They let that number go this week to a bill that reiterates “the support of the Congress of the United States for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Some in the single payer movement see the abandonment of HR 676 as a betrayal of years of grassroots activism, activism that drew 124 co-sponsors to HR 676 in the House last year.
Some in the single payer movement see the abandonment of HR 676 as a betrayal of years of grassroots activism.
Now, with Democrats in charge of the House, the Medicare for All single payer bill is being rewritten, watered down and renumbered.
“For the past 16 years, HR 676 was our gold standard bill defining a national improved Medicare for All single payer healthcare system for the United States,” said Margaret Flowers of Health Over Profit for Everyone. “It was based on the 2003 Physicians Working Group proposal by Physicians for a National Health Program.”
“Now that the Democrats can no longer ignore that their base is demanding a single payer health system, we have lost both HR 676 by number and its status as the gold standard. From what we have heard, as we have still not seen the text of the draft as promised, the new health bill being written by Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) has an unnecessarily long transition period and maintains the for-profit providers in the system. The delayed transition means more preventable deaths and suffering. Keeping the for-profits means higher costs and lower quality of care.”
Jayapal’s bill is being written behind closed doors.
Kay Tillow of Unions for Single Payer says that “unless the movement acts quickly to assure HR 676’s ban on for-profit institutions is maintained, Jayapal’s new bill will remove this vital section of HR 676.”
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”“It’s a compromise that there is no need to make,” Tillow wrote recently. “We are getting hearings in this Congress. Why should we take the impact of the for-profits out of the discussion before the debate starts? We gain nothing. The ban on for-profits has been in HR 676 since the beginning. It did not stop 124 congresspersons from signing on to it. It did not stop unions, organizations, cities, counties, and many others from endorsing it. It was one of the popular provisions that all of those who have dealt with these for-profit hustlers welcomed.
Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance didn’t miss the irony of losing HR 676 to NATO on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. It was King who said – “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
“Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-California) the son of former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, took HR 676 and turned it into a bill to support NATO,” Zeese said. “NATO is no longer a defensive force against the non-existent Soviet Union but has become a military aggressor working with the US in illegal wars among them Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya. It has not only expanded to cover most of Russia’s border with bases, missiles, and troops but has spread to Colombia which borders Venezuela, another nation the US is threatening with war.”
“NATO is no longer a defensive force against the non-existent Soviet Union but has become a military aggressor working with the US in illegal wars among them Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya.
“To top it off, on April 4, the anniversary of the murder of Dr. King, NATO will be holding a 70th-anniversary meeting in Washington, DC. This is also the anniversary of King’s Beyond Vietnam speech. In that speech, King warned that ‘A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.'”
“Congressman Panetta’s replacement of healthcare for all with military aggressiveness exemplifies that spiritual death.”
To reiterate the support of the Congress of the United States for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1.SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “NATO Support Act”.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that:
(1) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which came into being through the North Atlantic Treaty, which entered into force on April 4, 1949, between the United States of America and the other founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has served as a pillar of international peace and stability, a critical component of United States security, and a deterrent against adversaries and external threats.
(2) The House of Representatives affirmed in H. Res. 397, on June 27, 2017, that—
(A) NATO is one of the most successful military alliances in history, deterring the outbreak of another world war, protecting the territorial integrity of its members, and seeing the Cold War through to a peaceful conclusion;
(B) NATO remains the foundation of United States foreign policy to promote a Europe that is whole, free, and at peace;
(C) the United States is solemnly committed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s principle of collective defense as enumerated in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty; and
(D) the House of Representatives—
(i) strongly supports the decision at the NATO Wales Summit in 2014 that each alliance member would aim to spend at least 2 percent of its nation’s gross domestic product on defense by 2024;
(ii) condemns any threat to the sovereignty, territorial integrity, freedom and democracy of any NATO ally; and
(iii) welcomes the Republic of Montenegro as the 29th member of the NATO Alliance.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the President shall not withdraw the United States from NATO; and
(2) the case Goldwater v. Carter is not controlling legal precedent with respect to the withdrawal of the United States from a treaty.
SEC. 4. STATEMENT OF POLICY.
It is the policy of the United States—
(1) to remain a member in good standing of NATO;
(2) to reject any efforts to withdraw the United States from NATO, or to indirectly withdraw from NATO by condemning or reducing contributions to NATO structures, activities, or operations, in a manner that creates a de facto withdrawal;
(3) to continue to work with NATO members to meet their 2014 Wales Defense Investment Pledge commitments; and
(4) to support robust United States funding for the European Deterrence Initiative, which increases the ability of the United States and its allies to deter and defend against Russian aggression.
SEC. 5. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FUNDS TO WITHDRAW FROM NATO.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds are authorized to be appropriated, obligated, or expended to take any action to withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty, done at Washington, DC on April 4, 1949, between the United States of America and the other founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Passed the House of Representatives January 22, 2019.
Irony is, most of the ACA was created by the Heratige Foundation, as a counter-proposal to Hillarycare. GOP was mostly for it, before they were against it.
President Trump hosted members of the U.S. House and Senate at the Congressional Christmas Ball on Saturday. Trump said the country now has a chance to "get really good healthcare" after a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Obamacare individual mandate is unconstitutional.
The president said the ruling offers a chance for "incredible healthcare," which he said "is the way it should have been from day one." Trump then promised "it's going to happen."
"We have so much more to do," Trump said of his agenda. "This is going to be an exciting week. But I think it is going to be a really exciting year and exciting 2 years."
"I believe we're going to get really good healthcare," Trump said of the Obamacare decision.
"Exciting things happened over the last 24 hours. And if everybody's smart because we have Democrats here tonight and I'm very happy about that. People don't realize that I have a lot of friends who are Democrats and we have Democrats here. If the Republicans and Democrats get together we are going to end up with incredible healthcare which is the way it should have been from day one and it's going to happen. It now has a chance to happen."
Washington, D.C. – President Donald Trump announced that he will be cutting off the Cost-Sharing Reduction payments required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to reduce health insurance payments for millions of Americans. He also issued an executive order that will limit access to care for millions of Americans.
Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) released the following statement in response:
Dean of the U.S. House of Representatives John Conyers, Jr.
“President Trump and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly tried to dismantle the Affordable Care Act since its passage and implementation. After many failed attempts to repeal ACA at the congressional level, President Trump has turned to using the presidency to chip away at the ACA’s critical protections.
“The cost-sharing reduction payments that Trump plans to end were required by the ACA in order to help millions of Americans access quality, affordable care. Trump’s childish and cold-hearted maneuver to end these subsidies will cause premiums to rise for many hard working American families and cause insurers to leave the marketplace.
“When Democrats regain a majority it's imperative that we pass and implement a single payer, Medicare for All system that covers all Americans and cannot be tampered with by a petulant president. In the meantime, Republicans in Congress must join Democrats in their efforts to protect and build on the Affordable Care Act’s progress.”
According to the Congressional Budget Office, premiums will increase 25 percent by 2020 without cost-sharing reduction payments.
Read more about the Trump ACA executive order below.
The Trump executive order to sabotage ACA will:
Limit access to comprehensive health coverage, threatening coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
·The ACA requires that most health insurance sold to individuals and small employers be comprehensive and include coverage for essential health benefits; the executive order could unravel these guaranteed benefits.
·Without guaranteed coverage for needed benefits, such as maternity care, mental health treatment and substance use treatment, people may be left with skimpy and inadequate coverage that doesn’t give them access to the care they need and that does not offer adequate financial protection against serious medical conditions.
Undermine health insurance markets and increase costs for consumers.
·Both proposals in the executive order will create an unleveled playing field by allowing certain insurance plans – “short-term” plans and association health plans – to play by different rules.
·As healthier and lower cost consumers get cheap junk plans with skimpy benefits that may not meet their health needs, older, sicker, and higher cost consumers will be left behind with skyrocketing costs for the same coverage.
·The individual and small group insurance markets could spiral into chaos and consumers may be left without any access to affordable insurance options.
Leave consumers in the lurch, allowing back-door discrimination based on pre-existing conditions.
·By expanding short-term coverage, we will return to the days of charging sick people more than healthy people and leaving people with pre-existing conditions without affordable coverage options.
·Both short-term plans and AHPs are not held to the same standards as other insurance. This means consumers may have little recourse for problems or complaints, and no guarantee that they will have the coverage they need when they need it.
Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.
I am proud to cosponsor H.R. 2228, the “Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act of 2017.” This bill would provide support for law enforcement agencies to protect the mental health and well-being of law enforcement officers.
At the outset,we must recognize that law enforcement officers have a special role in our communities, with exceptional responsibilities to serve and protect. In the performance of these duties, they see, encounter, and experience events that the rest of us would run from, but they do not.
Law enforcement officers respond to horrendous situations that are both dangerous and stressful, and oftentimes life-threatening, as they find themselves in harm’s way while protecting the communities they serve.
For example, some recent tragedies which law enforcement officers have responded to include in June 2016 when 49 people were killed and 53 others wounded by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida; one month later when a gunman killed five officers and wounded another nine officers along with two civilians in Dallas, Texas; and just this month when a gunman in Las Vegas killed 58 innocent citizens and injured nearly 500 others.
And, of course, law enforcement officers must respond to the calls related to violence of many kinds in our communities every day.
In many cases, these traumatic situations remain with officers long after the threats are reduced and the communities they serve have gained a renewed since of safety.
However, members of law enforcement are left to face the continued trauma from their daily work, which can be difficult to process and impossible to forget.
That is why this bill is necessary.
H.R. 2228 seeks to help create and improve mental health and wellness services for law enforcement officers.
The bill provides support for law enforcement agencies by requiring reports on mental health practices and services that can be adopted by law enforcement agencies and establishes peer mentoring mental health and wellness pilot programs within law enforcement agencies.
H.R. 2228 would also provide support for mental health programs by developing educational resources for mental health providers regarding the culture of law enforcement agencies and therapies for mental health issues common to law enforcement.
This measure would also provide support for law enforcement officers by reviewing existing crisis hotlines, recommending improvements regarding these crisis hotlines, and researching the effectiveness of annual mental health checks for law enforcement officers.
With this legislation, we in Congress can help better provide for and protect the mental health, safety, and wellness of all law enforcement officers as they unselfishly protect each of us daily.
For these reasons, I support this bill and ask that my colleagues join me in doing so today.
115th CONGRESS 1st Session
H. R. 2228
To provide support for law enforcement agency efforts to protect the mental health and well-being of law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 28, 2017
Mrs. Brooks of Indiana (for herself, Mrs. Demings, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Pascrell, and Mr. Reichert) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To provide support for law enforcement agency efforts to protect the mental health and well-being of law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1.SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act of 2017”.
SEC. 2. SUPPORT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.
(a) Interagency Collaboration.—The Attorney General shall consult with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a report, which shall be made publicly available, on Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs mental health practices and services that could be adopted by Federal, State, local, or tribal law enforcement agencies.
(b) Case Studies.—The Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services shall submit to Congress a report—
(1) that is similar to the report entitled “Health, Safety, and Wellness Program Case Studies in Law Enforcement” published by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services in 2015; and
(2) that focuses on case studies of programs designed primarily to address officer psychological health and well-being.
(c) Peer Mentoring Pilot Program.—Section 1701(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd(b)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (21), by striking “; and” and inserting a semicolon;
(2) in paragraph (22), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(23) to establish peer mentoring mental health and wellness pilot programs within State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies.”.
SEC. 3. SUPPORT FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS.
The Attorney General, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall develop resources to educate mental health providers about the culture of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and evidence-based therapies for mental health issues common to Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers.
SEC. 4. SUPPORT FOR OFFICERS.
The Attorney General shall—
(1) in consultation with Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies—
(A) identify and review the effectiveness of any existing crisis hotlines for law enforcement officers;
(B) provide recommendations to Congress on whether Federal support for existing crisis hotlines or the creation of an alternative hotline would improve the effectiveness or use of the hotline; and
(C) conduct research into the efficacy of an annual mental health check for law enforcement officers;
(2) in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the head of other Federal agencies that employ law enforcement officers, examine the mental health and wellness needs of Federal law enforcement officers, including the efficacy of expanding peer mentoring programs for law enforcement officers at each Federal agency; and
(3) ensure that any recommendations, resources, or programs provided under this Act protect the privacy of participating law enforcement officers.
The reauthorization for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was not reauthorized.
What does that mean?
#MedicareForAll
Either that or poor kids are going to have to rely upon foster care to access health care services, which will cost a whole bunch more due to the inherent fraudulent billing of Medicaid.
Besides, failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child is considered abuse and neglect.
Over the weekend, Congress allowed funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which covers nearly 9 million children in low-income families, to lapse—failing to pass a reauthorization by Saturday’s deadline after spending most of the year attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
The expiration of the program will not affect all states equally. Some are already scrambling to move money around to make sure no child sees their coverage lapse while others have a healthy amount in reserves that will last them well into next year if Congress does not act.
Though the Senate will hold a markup on the reauthorization on Wednesday, its passage remains uncertain. The House has not yet unveiled its version of the bill, and a House Democratic aide told TPM that while negotiations are ongoing, the parties are still fighting over whether to maintain the same level of the federal funding match for CHIP and whether to require cuts to other parts of the federal budget to offset CHIP’s cost.
“We have yet to reach an agreement,” the aide said. “It’s pretty upsetting that the time tradeoff has been an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.”
According to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 48 of 50 states, including DC, assumed Congress would reauthorize CHIP when they wrote their 2018 state budgets. That mistaken trust in Congress is already having major consequences.
At least 10 states are on track to run out of money by the end of 2017, and even those that can hold out into 2018 will pay a price.
Joan Alker, the executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and an expert on CHIP, told TPM that the severity depends on how long lawmakers drag their feet.
“If Congress can get it done in the next couple weeks, we could avoid some of the worst consequences,” she said. “It’s hard to disentangle what the consequences will be, but we will certainly start seeing them in November.”
Some states have laws on the books that would force them cap enrollment or end health coverage for the CHIP population altogether if federal funding lapses. Others are anticipating cuts to other CHIP-funded programs, including coverage for low-income pregnant women and children.
Without knowing when Congress will act, Alker says several states are torn about whether to send out notices to families warning that coverage could be cut off or enrollment frozen.
“States only have bad choices here. They don’t want to alarm families but at some point they have to act,” she explained. “Congress has been talking all year about taking away health coverage from families, so if a family gets a notice that says, ‘Your coverage maybe taken away,’ there are many reasons for them to think it’s a strong possibility. It is all very bad news.”
Here are the states that may be hit the hardest:
Utah
Utah’s senior Republican senator Orrin Hatch (pictured above whispering with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell) chairs the committee in charge of funding CHIP. He told reporters last week that the program will be reauthorized “shortly,” but that will not be soon enough for his struggling state. Utah officials have said that they will run out of funding by the end of the year and are making plans to close the program, impacting upwards of 20,000 children.
Minnesota
The commissioner of Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, Emily Piper, told her congressional delegation in September that without renewed federal funding, she will have to take “extraordinary measures” to prevent people from being kicked off of CHIP.
“The pregnant women covered by CHIP would be at risk of losing coverage altogether,” she wrote. “However, we are exploring ways to continue coverage temporarily by carrying over FY 2017 CHIP funds so that their prenatal and postpartum care continues uninterrupted. This action, however, comes with a significant financial penalty.”
That penalty, she estimates, will be a $10 million hit to the state’s general fund.
Arizona
Arizona’s CHIP funding, which provides coverage for more than 22,000 children, will run out by the end of the year if Congress does not pass a bill. Because the state passed a bill in 2016 that would force its CHIP program to halt new enrollment if the federal government eliminates funding, the state is already warning health insurers and families that they may implement an enrollment freeze.
The last time this happened, during the Great Recession in 2009, the rate of uninsured children in Arizona climbed sharply.
Texas
Texas, which temporarily waived the fees families have to pay for CHIP in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, could burn through its budget sooner than projected, threatening health insurance for 390,000 children.
West Virginia
State law requires West Virginia to shut down its CHIP program if federal funding levels drop by a certain amount. They are currently scrambling to get a legal interpretation of whether that means this week or when the state exhausts its reserve funding in early 2018.
The state expects that about one-third of children enrolled in CHIP would become uninsured with closure of the program, unable to enroll either in a parent’s employee insurance plan or on the individual market.
Nevada
Should Congress’ inaction continue, Nevada is preparing to freeze enrollment on Nov. 1 and end coverage altogether on Nov. 30 for about 27,000 children.
“We’d have to look at our options for limiting the services that are available,” Nevada’s deputy administrator for Medicaid Cody Phinney told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“If Congress does not quickly reauthorize CHIP, states like Nevada will need to either send notices of termination to program beneficiaries or develop alternative funding,” Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) warned in a statement.
The state legislature has not yet called a special session to plan for the potential shortfall.
Conyers Adds 118th Cosponsor to House Legislation Today
Washington, D.C. – Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) today released the following statement on the Senate introduction of Medicare for All legislation:
Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.
“The Affordable Care Act has done a great deed for our nation in providing millions who were uninsured with health insurance. It is vital that we continue to protect and build on this progress; however, it’s a fact that there are still millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance or have high-deductible plans that they can’t afford to use.
“I’ve been introducing H.R. 676, The Expanded And Improved Medicare For All Act since 2003. Under my bill, instead of a complicated, expensive network of exchanges and employer-sponsored plans and networks administered by for-profit insurance companies that some people can afford and many others can’t, we would have one health insurance plan, one health insurer and one network available to every single American. In other words, we would finally have guaranteed, universal healthcare. I’m proud that we currently have 118 House Democrats who cosponsored the legislation – a majority of the Democratic Caucus.
“I applaud Senator Bernie Sanders’ introduction of the Senate companion to my Medicare for All bill and all of the momentum he has garnered in support of a universal single-payer healthcare system.
“Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege for those who can afford it. It deserves to be an essential service provided by the government, no different than fire departments, public schools, and military protection.
“Poll after poll shows that Americans agree that we have a collective obligation to guarantee healthcare coverage to everyone through a government financed healthcare system. It’s time for a real debate, including hearings, independent analysis, and input from doctors, patients, and hospitals.
“As I’ve said many times before, it took a nationwide movement to achieve civil rights. I introduced legislation to make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday a federal holiday and it took nearly two decades for it to become a reality. In that same vein, we are creating a movement to make Medicare for All the law of the land.”
Rep. Conyers invited U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to join in on the discussion. Topics included healthcare, creating good paying jobs, raising wages and building an economy that gives every American the tools to succeed in the 21st century.
Dean of the U.S. House of Representatives John Conyers, Jr. &
2017 Democratic Presidential Candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders
DETROIT – On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 7:00 pm, Representative John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) will host a town hall meeting to discuss jobs, healthcare and building a better future for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District.
Rep. Conyers has invited U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to join in on the discussion. Topics will include healthcare, creating good paying jobs, raising wages and building an economy that gives every American the tools to succeed in the 21st century. This event is open to the public.
Conyers and Sanders also just introduced companion youth jobs bills in the House and Senate to tackle unemployment. According to some estimates, Detroit has one of the highest youth unemployment rates -- 30 percent -- amongst the 25 largest U.S. metro areas.
