Ite houses dealings with ukraine, and yesterday the mmittees interviewed kurt volker, a special envoy envofor special envoy to ukraine. Also this week, President Trumpo reporters that china should open an investigation into biden and his son. Nior editor ron joining us npr from want d. C. Ron, let me begin with you. Lets talk about the niece president pence. Espect what do we know and where is this going . The house leaders have sent notice to the Vice President saying they want to see every development that might exist, that might pertain to meetings that mike pence might verified with the ukrainian president , perhaps with others in ukrae. They want to know everything that he knows about the intehanges between our government at the highest levels, that is to say President Trump, and the ukrainian esident with urespeto investigations of the bidens, and also with respect to what the president had been saying, we saw this in those envoy messages that you referred to a moment ago, e quid
Supervisor haney and the Community Advocates for working on them. Supervisor yee supervisor brown. Thank you. Yes, i too want to give my thanks to mayor breed and supervisor mandelman for taking on this and really diving deep into this really difficult, complicated issue. For people suffering with ex trem mental illness, i think we really need to do better. I think we all agree of that. We shouldnt wait for contact with the police to provide shelter and treatment. I agree we need a better, much more Robust Mental Health system and that we need to have appropriate housing for people facing mental illness. And yes, we also need more front line Mental Health providers on the streets to connect with people already on the streets and suffering. I think thats really important and especially i would love to see that kind of force out there to be ahead of the police contacting people on the streets. But, we also need a way to help people who are in severe crisis but wont accept help. We cannot
Good morning. The Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Todayerer holding a hearing on our nations growing Mental Health and Substance Use disorder crisis. I will have an Opening Statement following by senator murkowski. Then we will introduce our witnesses. I believe Ranking Member will join us a little later as well. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each is have five minute farce for a round of questions. While we werent able to have it open to the public, live video is available on our Committee Website and if you are in need of accommodations, you can reach out to the committee or office of congressional accessibility services. We continue to see a high number of new covid cases, so we are having this hearing in a larger hearing room where we can be socially distanced limiting the number of people who are in the hearing room, experience depression, anxiety and other Mental Health disorders. Drug overdoses were on the
Good morning. The Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Todayerer holding a hearing on our nations growing Mental Health and Substance Use disorder crisis. I will have an Opening Statement following by senator murkowski. Then we will introduce our witnesses. I believe Ranking Member will join us a little later as well. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each is have five minute farce for a round of questions. While we werent able to have it open to the public, live video is available on our Committee Website and if you are in need of accommodations, you can reach out to the committee or office of congressional accessibility services. We continue to see a high number of new covid cases, so we are having this hearing in a larger hearing room where we can be socially distanced limiting the number of people who are in the hearing room, experience depression, anxiety and other Mental Health disorders. Drug overdoses were on the
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