Witnesses. The director of defense and Suicide Prevention office for the office of forest resiliency in the department of defense, the acting director of Suicide Prevention program at the department of Veterans Affairs, the Suicide Prevention branch chief at the center for Mental Health services and Substance Abuse at the department of and a and Human Services family professor of Health Care Policy, department of Health Care Policy at the harvard medical school. Thank you all for being here and we are sorry that we are a bit late. Our topic today is a heavy one. Its one that is difficult to discuss. We must address it to ensure the readiness and wellbeing of our troops, their families and veterans. Suicide is a homefront threat to Service Members and veterans. Tragically, rates of suicide for active duty Service Members and veteran populations have increased in the latest reports, particularly affecting young men under 30 who make up nearly half the military. Veteran suicide is a natio
Wild of pennsylvania and mr. Castro of texas are permitted to participate in the hearing today with the understanding that their questions will come only after all members of the subcommittee on both sides of the aisle are present and have had an opportunity to question the witnesses. Pursuant to Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limit nod the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from the witnesses sooner, and provide the members with adequate time to ask questions. Can you hear me all right . I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. I want to begin by ak nolging that this morning marks 18 years since the terrorist attacks that struck new york, pennsylvania and the pentagon on september 11th, 2001. Let us please take a moment to remember the 2,977 lives lost in those attacks. Thank you. This morning, we are here to discuss the federal governments responsibility to ensure that every child from the marianos to maine has a nurturing le
46,000 cases the previous weekend. So we are edging up. We are doing more testing. Youre on the east coast, they are saying in new york potentially approaching and apex. Potentially. So you see those numbers go up. The United States reported nearly 1500 deaths in one day on saturday. Officials are warning of a devastating surge over the next 12 weeks. Watch. This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans lives, quite frankly. This will be our pearl harbor moment, our 9 11 moment. Only its not going be localized, its going to be happening all over the country. Harris however, white house Officials Say coronavirus deaths in some hot spots may be close to peeking in the coming days. I just mentioned new york. President trump exposes hope for progress. Heres the president. We are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully, in the nottoodistant future, we will be very proud of the job we all did. Can never be happy when so many people are dying, but we
At 2 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast, we are seven days in now, and no end in sight. The partial u. S. Government shutdown drags on. The u. S. President continues to dig in, and congress has gone home for the year. In the middle of it all, some 800,000 government workers unsure of when they will be paid next. Cnns abbey philip picks it up from here. Reporter with the government still partially shutdown and no end in sight, President Trump was back at the white house and tweeting after his surprise trip to iraq. After claiming this week the federal employees supported the shutdown many of those workers have said to me and communicated, stay out until you get the funding for the wall. These federal workers want the wall. Reporter the president is now taunting democrats in a tweet by claiming, without evidence, that most of the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown are democrats. That comment prompted backlash from one of the largest unions representing federal employees. The