Online viewers around the world. Good morning and welcome. I ellen mckenzie, dean of the Johns Hopkins school of Public Health. I would like to start by extending a special welcome to president bill clinton. And also joining us today, several policymakers leading the way in Health Reform including congressman elijah couplings and dr. Lianna wynn who will join us here in the program. Also in the audience. Congressman john sarbanes, Antonio Hayes and representation from senator ben carsons office. I would like to extend an especially warm welcome to senator Barbara Mikulski whom we are now proud to call [ applause ] who we are proud to call one of our own. Thank you so much for being here. We are indeed honored to be working with the Clinton Foundation to bring you todays summit on one of our most important Public Health problems, americas Opioid Epidemic. This is a National Crisis that demands involvement from all levels of government, public and private organizations as well as from in
Chairwoman blackburn, what are some of your priorities this year . Oh, we have plenty of priorities. Were looking forward to doing some Good Housekeeping work, if you will, cleaning up at f. C. C. And ntia. Those two agencies also have to go through a reauthorization. F. C. C. Has not been reauthorized since 1990 and ntia since 92. So we are looking forward to moving forward with that. You know, we appropriate in the federal budget every year there are 310 billion dollars that re appropriated over 200 agencies that have not been reauthorized. So thats kind of item number one making certain that we do that. And within that as youre doing reauthorization it is an opportunity to revisit the structure of those agencies. Times have changed since 1990 or 1992. It is time to revisit what those agencies spend their time on. I would say also to make certain that they are focused on their Core Missions and that theyre paying attention to those Core Missions. You know when you go that period of t
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