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Committee heard from representatives of veterans organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [no audio] [silence] [no audio] good afternoon, everyone. [audio difficulty] millions of veterans every day. This committee is gathered to hear from those organizations about their firsthand perspective and their support for comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This piece of legislation has been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those veteran Service Organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts they have in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its passage and its ability to be sen ....
They can come up immediately after each other without my introducing them. We had chairman risch of the Foreign Relations committee, chairman wicker of commerce and chairman are also of the environment. We are here because the Senate Finance committee has voted on usmc a out o mca out of committ. A very strong bipartisan vote we expect the same bipartisan vote on the floor of the United States senate when it gets up there under the parliamentary parliamentarians decision it was referred to several other committees. These committees are going to hear from some of those chairmen, but in the meantime, it takes just a short period of time for them to do what they have to do on it to get it moving. But, i do not see that as an impediment to getting the u. S. Mca passed, and the only unknown thing is whether we are in the im ....
Impeachment to the senate. [inaudible conversations] thank you all for coming. Before i say a few things im going to introduce my colleagues and thank them for being here so they can come up immediately after each other without my introducing them. We had chairman risch of the Foreign Relations committee, chairman wicker of commerce and chairman are also of the environment. We are here because the Senate Finance committee has voted on usmc a out o mca out of committ. A very strong bipartisan vote we expect the same bipartisan vote on the floor of the United States senate when it gets up there under the parliamentary parliamentarians decision it was referred to several other committees. These committees are going to hear from some of those chairmen, but in the meantime, it takes just a short period of time for them to d ....