Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p
Committee heard from representatives of veterans organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [no audio] [silence] [no audio] good afternoon, everyone. [audio difficulty] millions of veterans every day. This committee is gathered to hear from those organizations about their firsthand perspective and their support for comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This piece of legislation has been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those veteran Service Organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts they have in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its passage and its ability to be sent to the president. Additionally tomorrow, september the 10th, is worldwide Suicide Prevention day, and this is our opportunity to call attention to the tragedy of suicide and urge for sw
Americans, its bad. The infection adds to the oil slump. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We were seeing earlier losses gaining three tents of 1 , but its still early in trading coming off the worst day again since 1987 and losses accelerating and falling to session lows. President trump talked about economic disruption lasting well into the summer. The dow now falling to the lowest level in two years. Losse talking about a 30 since the peak in february. We are seeing the Downside Pressure with the s p 500 index. Every sector on the s p in the red with losses of at least 7 . Financials and real estate leading the declines. , fallingave small caps more than 12 . U. S. Futures at the moment, a little upside. Up 6 10 of 1 . We will see how things shape up as the asia session gets underway. Amid thesia wideranging meltdown with more central bank rates, moving to boost liquidity we had on monday. The bank of korea delivering a 50 basis point cuts in emerging mee
By hundreds of sex abuse lawsuits son for when membership the boy scouts of america files for bankruptcy. And sport the followed over the Houston Astros cheating scandal is dominating the build up to the new baseball season with the sports biggest stars of choose the games governing body being chewed lenient and its punishment. Its 1500 g. M. C. Restarts this news are in syria where the un human rights chief is calling on the government and its allies so open humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave areas of fighting more michelle bestially put out a statement via her spokesman said governments and Russian Forces appear to be targeting civilians and hospitals deliberately nearly 900000 people have been forced from their homes in northwest syria over the last 3 months the governments offensive to capture the last rebel held areas has created the biggest single civilian displacement since the war began 9 years ago. The sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities
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