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[indiscernible chatter] the subcommittee on health will now come to order. Good morning, colleagues. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Madam chair, would you yield for a parliamentary inquiry as we start this hearing . I want to do my Opening Statement pardon me . I already recognize myself, but i will recognize you afterward. Id be holding, or that we would be holding a hearing under these circumstances. But i think it is a necessary one. Our country is in pain. Americans are afraid, you they they are sick, hungry, and jobless, and over 80,000 souls have been lost. The government that was supposed to protect them has failed. They haveheroes, and risen, extraordinary, ordinary americans showing courage, compassion, and a sense of selfsacrifice and duty beyond what could have or should have of them. Been asked regular americans have risen when their leaders have not. We are the greatest country on , and we have the most deathsnd the most from co