Concerned with it. Heroin is cut with that in order to increase the addictive nature . Increases potency. People go back to it. That is kind of the tragic part of it. Word gets out it is strong, and traffic rules to have traffickers will do that. It will spike something hot so you the wild Overdose Deaths and verbal travel. There will be a desire for that product. It is mixed with heroin, other substances and really can be mixed with anything just to kind of expanded in its commercial viability. Adding that to some other products, as dangerous as in our products might be, adding that to it is almost tantamount to knowing youll be committing a certain amount of murders as it is distributed amongst the populace. That is unavoidable. A significant quantity in the hands of the population can result in a certain number of deaths. Yes. We have had success with this Death Investigation overdoses. How difficult is it to prosecute . You are speaking earlier. The Biggest Challenges reactive. Our
By representative candice miller. This is an hour. I now call to order the committee on administration for todays hearing on the u. S. Capitol police. And the record will remain open for five legislative days so members might submit any materials to include. Quorum is present so we might proceed. Were meeting today to hear from the new u. S. Capitol chief of police matt verderosa. And as a committee, we want to congratulate you on your appointment and looking forward to continuing to work with you shoulder to shoulder. So we appreciate you coming. Hes going to be talking of course today about his vision, his direction for the Capitol Police moving forward. Some of the specific items we hope to discuss today include the Capitol Police Budget Priorities and recent security events and actions taken and the Capitol Police initiatives current and future. The Capitol Police is a Law Enforcement with a unique mission. Charged with protecting and serving the u. S. Capitol, the seat of the nati
Tonight on the communicators we broadcast from the conference in boston known as the internet and television expo. We interview f. C. C. Chair about the cable industry settop boxes and net neutrality. As you look at things, you see the evolution of the nature of television, the explosion of videos. You see increased talk about smaller bundles and how that changes the relationship with the consumer. You see alternative pathways to the consumer over influx kinds of devices. And that we have the potential be eentering the best era ever for consumers for programmers and for those who deliver. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan 2. Now, the u. S. Capitol police chief testifies on threats to the capitol including past incidents and the Capitol Police response as well as security planning for Upcoming Events including the democratic and Republican National conventions. This is almost an hour. We might proceed. Were meeting today to hear from the new u. S. Capitol chief of police. As a committee
Some of our very important Homeland Security initiatives until we have an appropriations bill. Its key that we get one. On the good news front the year ago there were a number of vacancies in the seniorlevel positions and we now have including myself over the last 12 months is to the hard work because 13 confirmed president ial appointments. We also have confirmed president president ial points and is the assistant secretary for legislative affairs in the new assistant secretary for public affairs. We have one nomination think an undersecretary for management to actually happens to be a former client of mine. The retired Vice President bird of Johnson Johnson russ dio who has impressed virtually every senator he has met. He will be a great addition to our team but im hoping he will be confirmed early in the new year. Its no accident that i selected somebody who was the Vice President for administration of Johnson Johnson which is a large decentralized Health Care Company with operating
And there is a study called project valor. And there is a study of military personnel with ptsd for three years. That really helps as well. I have to subsidize with the lady that called in earlier. She sounded suicidal and i cried. I had to compose myself before i could make this call. But im glad you are putting the number up on the screen, the suicidal prevention hotline. Because she sounded so desperate. Airingin, thank you for this particular subject. It is vitally important stop vitally important, and to let people know that we are not all crazy because we have ptsd. We are struggling, but we are making it. Thank you, and got bless you. The kindank you for words. There are many people fighting this, really hard. Dedicated people like mark and caroline. This is something where there are very good people, thousands of them, and this is all they do is try to help others. It is also with her membrane that the only area in which you are seeing suicide begin to rise among the only area