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
Work in the Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Without objection the chair is authorized to calle for recess at any time. Todays hearing is entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resources come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to veteran suicide which we note include homelessness and hunger. Our subcommittee works in a bipartisan way to str
Entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resources come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to veteran suicide which we note include homelessness and hunger. Our subcommittee works in a bipartisan way to strengthen education and job Training Programs so veterans can get a good job but, unfortunately, thats not always the outcome. Sometimes joble
Settlements were liberated by fighters from the north group of forces, well tell you how the offensive of our troops is developing in kharkov region. The water level in the omsk region is critically dangerous, more than 300 houses are flooded, hundreds of people have been evacuated. Rescuers are strengthening dams to prevent flooding of the federal highway. Well, lets start with the situation in belgorod targeted shelling of residents of civilian infrastructure became the signature of zelenskys criminal group, which is backed by western sponsors. This is how our Foreign Ministry commented on the terrorist attack in belgorod. The Ukrainian Armed forces hit the city with missiles and fragments of the downed point. A residential building was damaged, an entire entrance. At this moment , the search and rescue operation is ongoing, there may be people under the rubble, now our correspondent igor pikhanov is working directly at the site of the collapse, he is in direct contact with the studi
Start to improve transparency on solitary confinement. At the hearing we heard testimony from a wide range of stakeholders, including the head of the bureau of prisons and advocates. Hud i ofer testified that our nation has seen a dramatic increase in the use of reliance on solitaire confinement over the last couple of decades. I also introduced the mercy act, a bill that would prohibit the use of solitary confinement on youth adjudicated delinquent in the federal system unless it is a temporary response to a serious risk of harm. To the juvenile others. Our Justice System must ensure justice in the deepest, richest meaning of that word. Its what we swear an oath to, that we will be a nation of liberty and justice for all, not just some but for all, and it means that we need to begin to expose the practices that are happening in our prisons and understand the consequences to all of us increased financial expenditures, increased risk to our security and our safety, increased risks of re