Good afternoon. Senator manchin, Ranking Member should be here shortly. He had a meeting off the hill. Thank you, senator blumenthal, for being here. Senator purdue, as well. We have a number of our other members who are joining us virtually today. Today, the cybersecurity subcommittee welcomes for the first time colleagues to present the findings of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Our friend, senator king, and representative gallagher. Theyre joined by fellow commissioner, retired Brigadier General, john c. Inglis. Welcome to all. Thank you for coming to discuss this important topic in todays hearing. I would like to extend my congratulations as well no Mike Gallagher and her wife ann on the recent birth of their birthday girl, grace. Good luck on your greatest adventure yet and all the amazing moments yet to come associated with it. I would like to recognize Mark Montgomery who serves or who served as executive director of the commission. Section 1652 of if ndaa establishes Cyber
Committee will come to order good good morning everyone. I want to think all of you who are attending this important hearing. Today we are going to discuss the International Response of the covid19 pandemic and the future pandemic preparedness prevention and response. The hearing will focus on senate bill 3829 with senator murphy and i have introduced, the Global Health diplomacy act. It is written on paper, not on stone which will we will talk about a little bit in the future here. This is an important endeavor that this committee will take up indeed, probably one of the weightiest matters that we will deal with as we attempt to create a new shield to prevent covid virus type attack from happening again. The covid19 Global Pandemic is reaffirmed what we long have known and that is Infectious Diseases particularly those of a viral nature do not respect borders but they are a threat, a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. Weve been right here to focus on art of a sick responses to th
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[inaudible conversation] welcome everybody. Thank you for your attendance, particularly those who have to testify and answer questions for us. I know you put in a lot of extra work to be ready for it. This hearing is on the oversight of a bill that had a long name. But for maturing Patient Access and it took the Drug Enforcement act. Somebodys going to have a pronunciation for that acronym but im not going to. Im going to refer to it as the law or the bill. And im eager to hear from all of our witnesses today. Some would like to see this law repealed. Others insist that it should remain in place. I havent made my mind up on that issue. So im interested in hearing both sides of the argument. This discussion is particularly important given the continuing Opioid Epidemic. That has ravaged this country through the past several years. I do have concerns with how we got where we are today. The discussions that weare having today. When Congress Took this still up in 2015 and 2016 , there was
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