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Good morning. Good morning everybody. Thank you so much for joining us and good morning to our viewers on cspan im sarah and president of the alliance for Health Policy, and really pleased to be here today with phil pearce and worldwide, and to introduce the admiral brett who is the assistant secretary for Health Opinion hes our 16th assistant secretary for health in the the United States department of health an Human Services and as i understand it its now two Year Anniversary in the role he serves as a secretarys Principal Public Health and science advisor, and hes responsible for coordinating efforts across the administration to fight americas ....
Oversees the office of Surgeon General and u. S. Public Service Health commission core. And theres a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic, the National Vaccines plan and across Agency Effort to improve the outcome of patients with Sickle Cell Disease. The doctor brings patient han handson to his work and leading americans to healthier lives. I want to thank again bill pierce and worldwide for partnering on this breakfast perspective on Health Policy and with that im pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Well, thank you very much and im going to stand up if thats okay with everyone. Good morning and its great to be here joining you. Again, i ....
Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office of the Surgeon General in the u. S. Public Health Service commissioned corps. His office leads many Critical National initiatives, including a historic new plan to fight the epidemic in america, the National Va ....
Supplemented. Madam chair, i yield time to the gentleman from texas. The chair the gentleman from texas is recognized. I thank the gentleman from maryland. I appreciate my friend from new yorks concern about this important issue thats obviously paramount for the nation, her state, and the union is touched by the tragedy of the opioid abuse. Mr. Roy i do want to i do want to point out, as i ourk has been made clear by continued lack of dealing with the crisis at our border, that the impact on the opioid problem by the trafficking going on at our southern boarder is significant. And i think we all agree on that. We all recognize that. My colleague from new york and i have sat in oversight hearings where weve had witnesses there where we talk about the massive increase over the last several years in the amount of narcotics that are coming through our southern border. And this is just something that i hope we can have a bipartisan understanding and agreement on about addressing. And actual ....