Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p
Coverage right here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, 24, ngton, d. C. , september 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Ofned, nancy pelosi, speaker the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore order of thehe house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated each n the parties and member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 10 50 a. M. Chair now recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. Cunningham, for five minutes. Mr. Cunningham thank you, mr. Speaker. Rise today to honor the life of amare. Amare was only 16 years young wis
Should be talking to you about today. But i know we just have a limited amount of your time. I really want to focus more than anything on the pacific. I know you come from the regent relatively recently prayed the National Defense strategy prioritized the competition and especially china and russia. But i think most people when they think about the army, they are thinking obviously of ground intensive environment like europe. They are not thinking about those effects. Is the pacific really a priority for the army . And what does it mean if it is . Yes, historically we are focused on europe. The National Defense strategy to put the indo pacific at the top priority. It is certainly a priority for us. And we take a look without the pacific that was my first overseas trip as a chief in september 2019. That was my first trip with covid out into the region. Emily look at the region theres a great competition is about the people. The people reside in the land domain. The secret the solution t
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 sent to the president. Additionally tomorrow, september the 10th, is worldwide Suicide Prevention day, and this is our opportunity to call attention to the tragedy of suicide and urge for sw
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