Witnesses. The director of defense and Suicide Prevention office for the office of forest resiliency in the department of defense, the acting director of Suicide Prevention program at the department of Veterans Affairs, the Suicide Prevention branch chief at the center for Mental Health services and Substance Abuse at the department of and a and Human Services family professor of Health Care Policy, department of Health Care Policy at the harvard medical school. Thank you all for being here and we are sorry that we are a bit late. Our topic today is a heavy one. Its one that is difficult to discuss. We must address it to ensure the readiness and wellbeing of our troops, their families and veterans. Suicide is a homefront threat to Service Members and veterans. Tragically, rates of suicide for active duty Service Members and veteran populations have increased in the latest reports, particularly affecting young men under 30 who make up nearly half the military. Veteran suicide is a natio
Power lunch starts right now good day welcome to power lunch lets get a check on the markets. The numbers are in the red all the averages are as investors try to digest mixed signals on the u. S. China trade talks but the indexes are off the lows the dow is down. The s p 500 call these numbers pretty flat except for the russell which is off about a half a percent we begin this hour with major deal news as Charles Scwab is in talks to buy Td Ameritrade could we be in for wave of deals that turn the disrupted back into disare you positive tors. For more on what led to the talks, let head to the New York Stock Exchange you have a combination of two big forces going on. First you have the synergy more importantly its about skill. Revenue per customer is dropping because commissions have gone do zero theres other reasons for this as well. The trend, for example, to low cost and a way from higher cost mutual funds and into etfs hurts anyone or collects revenue sharing from funds on their pla
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and calm that all might have confidence in your faithfulness to us. That no matter what lies ahead your grace is abundantly available. Now we approach a week during which all americans will gather to remember who we are. A nation generously blessed not only by you, our god, but by courageous ancestors faithful allies, and the best good wishes of people everywhere who long for freedom, who would glory in the difficult work of participative government and who do not enjoy the bounty we are privileged to possess. Bless the members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our response. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The sp
And facing new pressure. Why Actress Lori Loughlin and other parents accused in the College Admissions case a now charged with bribery. Its wednesday, october 23rd, 2009. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. You have damning testimony day after day in the impeachment inquiry. Explosive revelations from americas top diplomat to ukraine. Bill taylor testified that President Trump made military funds for ukraine contingent on ukraines public pledge to investigate joe biden. How dare President Trump is facing criticism after comparing the House Democrats impeachment inquiry to laneching. This is a lynching in every sense. This is unamerican. Russia and turkey announced an agreement to jointly patrol almost the entire northeastern Syrian Border after withdrawal of kurdish fighters. We certainly didnt sign up to help them establish an autonomous kurdish state. Boeing is replacing the head of its commercial Airplanes Division in the wake of the deadly air crashes of the max jet.
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