Good morning. Good morning everybody. Thank you so much for joining us and good morning to our viewers on cspan im sarah and president of the alliance for Health Policy, and really pleased to be here today with phil pearce and worldwide, and to introduce the admiral brett who is the assistant secretary for Health Opinion hes our 16th assistant secretary for health in the the United States department of health an Human Services and as i understand it its now two Year Anniversary in the role he serves as a secretarys Principal Public Health and science advisor, and hes responsible for coordinating efforts across the administration to fight americas Opioid Crisis. He also oversees the the office of the Surgeon General and u. S. Public Health Service Commission Core. His office leads many Critical National initiatives including a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic in america the physical afnght tbliens for americans, National Vaccine plan, with and across Agency Effort to improve th
Eastern. Next, representatives from the faa and the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration join two assistant transportation secretaries to talk about new technology and government regulation. The Transportation Research board hosted this event. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. I hope youre all doing very well today. We are all very much excited to be here with you. On behalf of secretary elaine chao. To present to you on laying the foundation for advanced Transportation Technology. Ill let our panelists introduce themselves in a moment. We want to let you know we appreciate you. Youre a critical audience for us representing researchers and thinking that goes into laying the foundation for a lot of tho these advanced transportation technologies. Trv is a fantastic event. People who attend trv tend to be a wonkier crowd. Understand what were saying more times than not. Hearing from you helps inform everything were doing. Were very much looking forward to this panel today. W
Oversees the office of Surgeon General and u. S. Public Service Health commission core. And theres a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic, the National Vaccines plan and across Agency Effort to improve the outcome of patients with Sickle Cell Disease. The doctor brings patient han handson to his work and leading americans to healthier lives. I want to thank again bill pierce and worldwide for partnering on this breakfast perspective on Health Policy and with that im pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Well, thank you very much and im going to stand up if thats okay with everyone. Good morning and its great to be here joining you. Again, it has been two years now as they say in d. C. , the days are long, but the years are short and i can certainly agree with that. Its abouten quite an amazing two years with a lot of accomplishments and understanding of what we need to do. If i can get my slides up, please. Well, when we get our slides up, thats okay. So i am the 16th assistan
Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office of the Surgeon General in the u. S. Public Health Service commissioned corps. His office leads many Critical National initiatives, including a historic new plan to fight the epidemic in america, the National Vaccine plan, and eight cross agency plan for Sickle Cell Disease. Dr. Giroir brings the hands on perspective to his work. Lead america to healthier lives. I want to thank Africa Worldwide for partnering on this. With that, i am pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Mr. Giroir thank you v
[inaudible conversations] good morning the subcommittee will now come to order. Welcome to everyone that is here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for an opening statement. According to dhs National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. Thirtythree states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and in the district of columbia have legalized for adult use. State laws and federal policy are 1000 miles apart. The federal governments still strictly prohibits even restricting legitimate medical research. Widespread availability of cannabis is the purpose of the hearing to examine the pressing need for medical research of cannabis and the chemical compound with cbd being one of them. Half a century ago the congress listed cannabis as schedule one substance including heroin heroine, lsd, and ecstasy. Schedule one drugs have no medical value in high potential for abuse. Scheduled to drugs such as cocaine and vicodin even schedule