The subcommittee will come to order. Thank you all very, very much and, again, we apologize for being late. Days take on a life of their own. But i wanted to say good morning, dr. Collins. Welcome back to labor hhs, the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say thank you on behalf of the of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for the site visit at the nih campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about nihs work. We met with the researchers who were working to cure Sickle Cell Disease, to develop treatments for major depression, shrink and treat cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials. So it was a moving an informative but a very moving experience as well. Let me welcome our witnesses, including the five institute and Center Directors who join us today and in addition, and always a great addition, dr. Francis collins whos joined us many times, director of the National Institutes
Thank you. The yes my name is priced in the near with ball and i like to acknowledge to make additional coauthors, doctor reuter and both collaborated very much on several parts of this very comprehensive report. In addition to that we would like to acknowledge the fact we dedicated this work to mark the just passed away this year. One of the major mentors and drug policy shaped a lot of our dispatch into thinking innovatively about challenges when it comes to drugs and drug policy. That said, that no, yes, it is right now the driving force behind overdosed desk in the United States. Today just to keep it brief take respect the work weve been doing in the last year looking at fentanyl, the main key points just from the ship or come to an page is basically nature and magnitude of the ongoing overdosed crisis brought on by synthetic opioids is really unlike a traditional drug epidemic and his more so or better thought of as a poisoning outbreak. That said, if we just limit our policy res
Hes the u. S. Governments main person for fighting antisemitism abroad and the champion for the rule of law in vulnerable and jewish communities around the world, please welcome to the stage special envoy for monitoring and combatting antisemitism, elan carr. Thank you so much. What an amazing room. I am so pleased and so honored to be with you today. Really, my most Important Message to you is a message of thank you. I owe you a debt of gratitude personally and the United States government owes you a debt of gratitude, because in my work, monitoring and fighting this ancient relentless sickness that is antisemitism, i have no more important address than the adl. There are many fine jewish organizations out there, but there is one organization that is synonymous with the fight against antisemitism and with the fight against ethnic and religious hatred and intolerance. Thats adl. [ applause ] thank you to epstein, thank you to jonathan greenblatt. What amazing leaders you have. Tim jaco
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