it is led by co-chair annie custer, a democrat from new hampshire and new jersey republican tom mcarthur and focus on the treatments behind the opioids such as fentanyl. you can watch that here on c-span3. and we will be back with a series of votes and first up is the nominee betsy devos as lawmakers are going to continue to debate her nomination at noon eastern and final vote is scheduled tuesday. nominations is jeff sessions for attorney general, and tom price for hhs secretary, and steven a mnuchin for treasury secretary, and they will continue to work on those throughout the week, and you can see them live on our companion network c-span 2. tonight on the communicators, consumer technology association president gary shapiro talks about the major technology issues facing congress and the administration. he also talks about the latest innovative products at the consumer show held in las vegas. he is interviewed by michaela ross of bloomberg. >> and the exhibitors there, everything is connect and the internet you could say is the overlay, but it is the benefit of being connect and the b

first roundtable taske bipartisan heroin force for the 115th congress. , want to thank my cochair annie custer. we are proud of the work that we have done. i think we are proud this is the most rigorously bipartisan group in the u.s. house of representatives and we are looking forward to a year of joined a make more progress on an issue that is of great concern to all of us. just a recap of last year briefly. year, the comprehensive addiction and recovery act was passed by the house and the senate and passed into law. and it provided stakeholders resources to combat the heroine epidemic. we passed an act at the end of 100 14th congress that added an additional $100 billion of to combat this epidemic. in both of these were college in no small measure because of the bipartisan work done by this task force. out in theolled 18 bills thatweek really became the foundation and much of the detail of what was ultimately passed into law. there is still a lot of work to be done. americans over 52,000 died of a drug overdue's. 33,000 of them were opioid related deaths. that's hundreds of people on any giv

hearing on the science and treatment issues behind synthetic opioids, chaired by representative annie custer, democrat from new hampshire and tom mcarthur, republican. meanwhile, the u.s. senate is back for a week's worth of debate and votes on president trump's cabinet nominees. first up is education secretary nominee betsy devos and lawmakers resume debating her nomination at noon today with the final confirmation vote scheduled for tuesday. nominations on the agenda after that, jeff sessions for attorney general, tom price for health and human services and steve mnuchin for secretary. follow the debate ongoing now over on cs the pan2, live coverage. >>> tonight on the communicators, consumer technology association president gary schapiro talks about the major technology issues facing congress and the administration. mr. schapiro talks about the latest administrative offices he found at the consumers products show. he is interviewed by kayla ross. >> things kind of defined almost every exhibiter there because everything is really connected. it's the benefit of being connected. it's the ben