Meeting i have to attend to make a quorum down the hall here. So im going to to start out. I know you want to introduce one person. Are you under a time constraint . Because if you are, ill give you the courtesy of going ahead. Mr. Chairman, i can wait until the regular okay. So i welcome our panelists today to our hearing on the oneyear anniversary of the support act. This landmark statute, which many of us had a hand in developing, responded to the Opioid Epidemic on multiple fronts. That crisis affected every corner of our nation with approximately 130 americans dying from an overdose every single day. Weve devoted a lot of federal resources to tackling the crisis, and i look forward to hearing from the Surgeon General on this, of this administrations efforts to implement the support act. Now its on its oneyear anniversary. I also commend dr. Adams for launching his own unique initiatives to help raise Public Awareness about the risk of the opioid misuse. Challenges remain, however,
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Weapons, including longrange weapons and financial investments. Ukraine needs peace today. Evidence of this is the flight of more or less healthy, sensible ukrainians from the country in order to avoid going to the front. We know very well that they are being captured. On the streets, and often they dont even train, they dont conduct combat coordination at training grounds, they are thrown straight to the front. And not in the second echelon, but as stormtroopers, behind the merzh, detachments of armed people, ukrainians who are following these poor fellows, as they often say, i quote, we were given a oneway ticket, according to alexander lukashenko, the us goals are not only to drown russia is in conflict, but also to weaken its longtime rival the european union, while simultaneously militarizing europe, especially belaruss neighbors the baltics. Nato forces plans in europe and also about the number of Us Nuclear Weapons in europe. Belarus has accurate data on here is another fragment
Call this meeting of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee to order. Appreciate secretary shull kin for being here and his hard work. After opening statement, well go to secretary shulkin for statement and then members of the committee for q a. Let me say, this meeting is not about whats happened in the past, its about whats happening right now to correct some things that happened in the past. This is an accountability hearing. Ive told the secretary that we want to take the legislation we passed last year on accountability, on appeals, to give them the tools to address the significant problems confronting the veterans of america, vsos of america, and this committee, to begin moving away from the problems of the past and toward the solutions of the future, in particular on appeals, in particular on accountability, in particular on the gi bill, all those things that are important to the veterans and their families. And i pick particularly on the leadership of the va as well. I want to t