Progress of biomedical innovation and research. The mexican ambassador to the u. S. Jut lined the decision to allow private Sector Companies into the emergency market during a discussion today. He was among several speakers talking about mexicos efforts to increase gas and Oil Production, which in the last 75 years has only been controllinged by a staterun company. This is an hour and a half. Okay, everybody. Welcome to csis. Happy everybody could get here on such a hot day. This is washington. Its this time of the year, but hopefully the airconditioning will hold out. Delighted to have everyone here. And delighted to have an opportunity to explore this topic. Talking with the ambassador just a few minutes ago, he said you used to have a mexico program. We did. And that was back when she was with us. She did a terrific job of creating a mexico program. We have not really caught our balance since then. We are making up for it today by taking pieces of mexico. We need to get together to
Thank you, representative. As the prouder rep zresentativef the 4h 0,000 veteran who is liv in my district, i want to get this right. Congress has promised to take care of our veterans. Our veterans and their families have earned and deserve to be taken care of. They have sacrificed for our country and now our country must sacrifice for them. We are here today at a pivotal moment. We must act decisively and fix what must be fixed. As i sit here with my colleagues, both republican and democrat, i know that both of you care deeply about our veterans and i know you all truly want to fix the problems currently plaguing the v. A. I know what happened in phoenix was intolerable. That the v. A. Must undergo a complete cultural and systemic transformation. And that individuals should and must be held accountable. But i also see this as an opportunity to make changes. An opportunity we must seize. An opportunity to show the American People that it not only has the will, but the way forward to m
Think we gave you a copy, mr. Secretary, i would ask you to look at for example your budget last year was at least 39. 2 billion. There is probably a number that we attribute out of that to Counter Terrorism someplace. It depends on what aspects of our mission do you consider Counter Terrorism . One aspect of the budget goes to Counter Terrorism. I suspect there is is a number assigned to that and i just dont have it offhand. If you can get that to us later on roughly. I would venture to say it is billions of dollars . Is that correct . And then your number one goal, your number one goal is to prevent terrorism. And then there are measures. Now, what you would you venture to say that i would ask you to take a look at this . If you spend billions of dollars and your number one goal, your first performance measure is the percentage rated higher in customer feed back to understand the threat. And then you go on the second one, the percentage of Intelligence Report rated satisfactory or hi
Help . We could hone in on that question and see what the federal government can do to improve our ability to determine who needs help and our ability to identify the person or agency whose job it is to provide the help, and then we will have provided some service. It helps to put a face on who needs help. As a former governor, i look at things from my background and perspective, as i know most of us do. About 22 of tennesseeans reported having a Mental Illness last year. That is more than 1 Million People. This is according to our state department of Mental Health. About 5 had a severe Mental Illness. That is nearly 250,000 tennesseeans. That is a lot of people. About 40,000 had a major depressive episode. The funding that helps meet the needs for that comes in some part from the federal government. About 22 of what tennessee spends, im told, is federal dollars. The rest is state dollars. In Community Services, state appropriations are about 70 of the Mental Health fund. While the Sta
Accomplishment, concern because the interim final rule published in 2010 left some Implementation Details on result. The administration publishes a final rule, how we address issues like the scope of services that must be covered because insurers have detailed guidance and need to implement the law . Thank you. As you know, the final rule published in 2010, part of what was requested by the public was in put on several topics, that was one. In the meantime we issued four or five sub regulatory guidance, we have also been meeting with stakeholders and industry trying to understand how the implementation is happening. We are ready to produce the final rag and were in the process now. Dr. Insel . I have some concerns and i know others have also. I have read a lot about these concerns and i hear them from constituents and other people who talk to me about the use of pharmaceuticals, particularly anti psychotic medication in children. What i hear sometimes does something, get them drug. Get