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Good morning, everyone and welcome back as we returned from the Holiday Season to continue the work i of the Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Witwithout objection the chair s authorized to call for a recess at any time. I am hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country this hearing will examine the department of Veterans Affairs department of Agriculture Programs that identified Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance to those in need. Specifically todays hearing will focus on how veterans access to nutriti...

The mayor of little rock, arkansas was a cochair on the city side and i was a cochair on the county side. Youll be hearing from one of those Panel Members when greg speaks. Our work that was done seems like aged ags ago. Well be talking about that. I want to thank those of you here in person as well as those of you that are here virtually. We know this is being broadcast live stream and a special thank you to arc for your partnership. We partnered with each other. We partner with various agencies. This event is the culmination with a yearlong partnership to strengthen the local response on the...

Capture everyone. So, we are going to start with our first item with a report around preparedness. Before i start that, i just wanted to say that since the last meeting, we have gone from summer to winter and from fires to floods, as is how it goes in San Francisco. I just wanted to say thank you and to acknowledge the department of Emergency Management, the p. U. C. , public works, m. T. A. , fire and rec park. We met yesterday to review the citys response to the december 7th storm and recent flooding. As folks are probably aware, we had an out of nowhere, almost tornado, technically a micro ...

Well. Since 1999 more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an op...

And i believe senator durbin has some opening remarks. We will dive into the witness testimony as well. 1999, more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction in the production of deadly synthetic opioids has exasperated americans staggering overdose death rates. Than 70,000 people died from Drug Overdoses, making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 68 involved prescription opioids and illicit opioids such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against the epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million...