[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 Some would like to see this law repealed.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
Hold mass in bolivia. We will go live to santa cruz. Israel says two of its citizens are being held in the gaza strip, at least one of them by hamas. One of the missing men disappeared last year, the details are only come out now, because a judge has lifted a gag order. This is what we know. He is believed to have crossed the border fence into the gaza strip in september of last year. He is described of being of ethiopian dissent. This information is coming from the Israeli Ministry of defense. According to israeli sources he is being held against his will by hamas. Hamas says it doesnt know anything about it. Benjamin netenyahu says on twitter that his government is working to return him from gaza and his brother has called on the International Community to find him. Translator my brother has been missing for the last ten months. It looks like he crossed the border into gaza and then disappeared. Were talking about a humanitarian case because my brother is not well. On our familys beh