I want to go to the Choice Card because my colleague, Congresswoman Kuster, and I have co-sponsored the legislation.

I support a housing first model. I did not at first, and I had experience with this when I was mayor of Manchester.

The point of the card was accessibility and localized accessibility.

There is growing awareness that the long-term prescription of opioids to manage chronic pain can have severe and sometimes tragic consequences.

We need to make sure that people have access to treatment, to lifelong recovery, and, of course, we need to support our law enforcement.

The Granite State spends only $8 per capita on treatment for substance abuse.

The quality and care of our veterans is what is most important to me and to this Committee.

This is an epidemic that we have to fight. This is an epidemic that we will win.

We need to not only review our practices, but we need to pay close attention to the practices we currently utilize.

I want to follow-up on what Ms. Custer was just talking about.

if you are out of business, then we no longer have our fishermen.

we do not want to put this fee on our fishermen because we do not want them to go out of business

I see our fishermen also trying to take on new creative ways, obviously, to market fish and different species.

this is something that I think is a great tradition that is being devastated, basically eliminated.

I certainly share Senator Shaheen's concerns and am so glad that this hearing is happening today.

NOAA is not following through on it

We have got to get that immediately. You cannot afford it, right, so we have got to----

they are violating the intent of Congress to pay for the at sea monitoring