Covid19 crisis. It has brought tremendous hardship and tragedy, placing a heavy on frontline workers, straining our health care and Distribution System and imposing a deadly toll on seniors in particular. It has hit close to home for sure thatny and im all of our members want to join condolencessing our to senator elizabeth warren, who lost her 86yearold brother to the coronavirus. Elizabeth, we are very sorry for your loss. Visitor Nursing Homes has affected even those relatives who do not have virus. I know two brothers whose father is in a nursing home and has dementia. They have not able to see him for some time now and his health is failing. They are worried that he may not still be alive by the time that they are allowed to visit him, something that used to happen regularly. This virus has already claimed the lives of more than 90,000 american, the vast majority of whom were older adult. Adults 65 and older are more likely to suffer severe complications from covid19, and to have
On the Opioid Epidemic and testified on his research and what he has learned in the course of writing his book. This is two hours. , our witness is sam quinones author of dreamland, a true story of americas Opioid Epidemic. Senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since he is our only witness, if he wants to take more than five minutes to say what he wants to say, we would welcome that. , it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings and this is an unusual topic, one you say the Washington Post is going the worst manmade epidemic in history. The challenge this crisis presents has captured the attention of every member of this committee. Your research and writing has been acclaimed for its depth and rep depth and breath. This is a bipartisan hearing, one in which democrats and republicans have agreed on the topic and its importance. This is one i hope we will restrain from lecturing each other about Health Insurance and focus on the topic the Opioid Crisis. This epide
Into harms way without necessary readiness. Im having a very difficult time in light of the six months that weve been at war in iraq and syria against isis and in light of the president s authorization for the yoous of military force or aumf that is now before congress for this krgsz. Im having a very hard time understanding what the strategy is. And i want to make sure that, as my colleagues have said, that we fund our military well beyond the budget caps in the sequester levels. I agree with them there. I think perhaps more importantly, that we have the necessary strategy in place. Could you answer the strategy question for me . Certainly. First of all, strategy is does take in addition to geographic perspective, a multiyear commitment. Which is why annual budgetary turmoil isnt consistent with our strategy in taking a strategic view. With respect to the strategy against isil, the first thing id say is wed not only defeat isil, we need to defeat them in a lasting manner. We can defee
I would simply say that from personal observation, i was in bud a pest in 1994 when the agreement was signed that the russians have violated, so im very alive to the the possibility that we had then and i think still need to stick up for of independent ukraine able to find its own way politically and economically is the only thing i would say. In the first instance it is terribly important that that occurment and occur. And the other thing i will say is that nobody should mistake that ukraine is a very important country to us. It is not a nato ally and i just want to make the point that as far as nato allies are concerned, that raises a whole other set of issues that i hope anyone who is considering encroaching upon a nato ally takes very seriously. Well i hope so too. Ill be traveling to that region shortly and talking with some of those folks about it. Thank you for doing that. Thank you all for being here, mr. Secretary. Welcome back general dempsey. Youre going to miss us when your
A lane and ocean and lemme feels like that with the urine Climate Conference address is rising pollution person countries come under fire for using africa as a dumping ground for millions of times of a weekly on our international its just, its a, im here in the most good. I mean, its great to have you with us. Lets take a look at the story of this hour. But before we begin this hour with the news just in from the us, as the democrats appeared to have clenched control of the senate, with one of the Party Members projected to win a q race in nevada. As 96 percent of the votes have now being counted, well bring him all details about the win is i loses in the american mid term elections or why it all matters later in the program. Oh, i thought was the talk. So is this, an a russia has completed with drawing it shoots from the city has on and other locations on the right bank of the denay per river. This being done, potentially to avoid any dissolves. Now, with the, the main dam here and th