Chair sanders thank you very much for being here. We are going to continue this discussion on this issue of enormous concern to the american people. Senator murphy was going to introduce russell tucker, unfortunately he is detained. Let me begin by introducing her. Mrs. Russelltucker was appointed commissioner of the Connecticut Department of education in 2021. Previously she served as chief operating officer, division chief for the Departments Office of student supports and organizational effectiveness. Mrs. Russelltucker thanks for being with us. Mrs. Russelltucker thank you. Good morning, chairman sanders, Ranking Member cassidy, and members of the Senate Committee on health, education, labor, and pension. I am charlene russelltucker commissioner of education in connecticut. I give you information on Youth Mental Health crisis and connecticuts response to support the needs for students. My big goal is to ensure every Connecticut School has a coordinated and sustainable system of car
Chair sanders thank you very much for being here. We are going to continue this discussion on this issue of enormous concern to the american people. Senator murphy was going to introduce russell tucker, unfortunately he is detained. Let me begin by introducing her. Mrs. Russelltucker was appointed commissioner of the Connecticut Department of education in 2021. Previously she served as chief operating officer, division chief for the Departments Office of student supports and organizational effectiveness. Mrs. Russelltucker thanks for being with us. Mrs. Russelltucker thank you. Good morning, chairman sanders, Ranking Member cassidy, and members of the Senate Committee on health, education, labor, and pension. I am charlene russelltucker commissioner of education in connecticut. I give you information on Youth Mental Health crisis and connecticuts response to support the needs for students. My big goal is to ensure every Connecticut School has a coordinated and sustainable system of car
Something. Thank you. Thank you so much for the discussion. Im show jen from china daily. Speaking of asia and china, i want to ask what china and the u. S. Could do to cooperate in terms of Scientific Research and manufacturing and also the promotion of the new technology of Energy Sources and what is the role of ecp in this cooperation. And also, how they effect the economy, the politics an the bilateral relationship between china and the u. S. Thank you. Steve. [ laughter ] that is a big question. So i will take a stab at this but then im handing it straight over to you. All right. Only because your right inside of the game and this is that the cooperation, in my own view, will happen after the innovation. The competition is too stiff, the stakes of winning are too high for any of the countries to cooperate with each other. You are not going to have, for example, japan handing over its innovations to china, to south korea or south korea doing so with china or the United States doing
Thank you very much. Thanks for inviting us and thank you for coming. I would associate myself completely with the excellent textual analysis and i would agree with evans prediction that this could add some momentum, not a lot, but some momentum in their relations and also the relations and also the prescription about what the u. S. Government could do. I never had any expectation or should anyone have any expectation that this would resolve this issue within japan were korea or china or the u. S. For that matter. They famously said in the 70s it would take three generations to resolve this issue. Around the same time they said we leave this issue to the next generation which would be wise. Apparently that wasnt the case. In some ways its gotten harder. But i start with this premise it was never intended or have any chance of resulting the history issue. A lot of the criticism is promised on the need to resolve this and i just would put it to you that that was never for any Prime Minis
An alternate they are foye pair with their cessation of opiates. I would like you to respond to something that weve heard the secretary say and read about in the press that he has 28,000 positions to fill in the vha. Its something it was reiterated in the hearing here. Then when the Ranking Member and i and some other members of congress in the senate were in your command and control center on the eighth floor a few weeks back, weve heard that number was not 28,000, that it was 50,000 positions to be filled at the vha. Could you confirm that number and could you tell me how youre prioritizing those hires . And obviously im getting to if we have a crisis in Mental Health and were treating all hires the same, we have a problem. If youre prioritizing Mental Health, heres a chance to tell this committee and the public at large. So i did not hear the number 50,000. Ill have to check on that and get back to you drekly. I think that would probably be the easiest way to say that. With 300,000