After it was in the Boston Globe that Secretary Shulkin showed up virtually the next day.

We must set our sights higher than a 19th century approach for mental health diagnosis.

I recognize the VA has been unable to provide clear guidance in an expeditious manner as to how this research money is to be distributed.

I encourage the VA to vitalize this guidance as quickly as possible, and share that with this Committee.

While I appreciate the hard work and dedication of the witnesses and organizations that you represent, the testimony today does concern me.

We are very proud in New Hampshire of the development of the LUKE arm, and I have had a chance to see it in action, and it is really very impressive.

I have a brief closing statement, and one point I would like to leave the record open long enough for the VA to respond to the questions that have been asked today.

I am the Chair of a bipartisan task force in Congress, we now have 105 Members working together, Republicans and Democrats, on legislation to combat the opioid epidemic.

I would love to include the bipartisan Heroine Task Force, and both Committees to engage in this discussion.

So love to work with you on that.

Today I rise to speak as a cosponsor of the VA MISSION Act. I appreciate the work of Chairman Roe and Ranking Member Walz in putting this bill together. This bill is almost unanimously supported by the veterans service organization…

I thank my colleague from Washington for her leadership and her articulation of a big issue before us. I too rise today ahead of a vote that is of vital importance to protecting a free and open internet. Last week FCC Chairman Ajit Pai…

Like my colleagues on this committee, we have been very hard hit in New Hampshire, as you know, from your visit to Catholic Medical Center and other places in the State.

Well, thank you. Thank you all very much for the great work that you are doing.

I think we need to think about how we can reverse the incentives in our healthcare system to do more for prevention with type 2 where it really makes a difference.

And thank you to you and Senator Murray and Senator Alexander for your commitment to research and funding for NIH.

Absolutely. That is what we are seeing in New Hampshire where we have the highest rate of overdose deaths from fentanyl.

I came back because I did not want to go home and tell my family that I had this whole panel from NIH in front of me and I did not ask you about the prospects of research into a cure for type 1 diabetes.