Thank you, Dr. Neuhausen.

I want every family in Virginia to be talking about it now, not once there is already a problem.

I am just trying to think, when we were--when Senator Herring and I, and I was Governor, were fighting the meth problem...

Absolutely. Thank you.

There is still some kind of stigma issues, right, that we have to deal with across the range.

I would like to have that report with the Virginia specific data and have it submitted in the record of this hearing.

I think the equivalent of the opioid epidemic in terms of the scope and the number of lives it has touched is more like HIV epidemic.

I think one of the issues that I had not focused on so much until your testimony today is the consequences of opioids on things like falls, or heart risk, or other risk to organs.

Mr. President, I thank my colleagues for taking the floor on this important matter. While I serve on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I actually want to talk about this issue from my standpoint on the Senate Armed Services…

Social Security has to be the base for our social safety net system and that payroll-based deductions are the most effective way for individuals to save.

We have 125,000 Americans, miners, many of them dependent upon the UMWA 1974 Pension Fund.

The sooner we get at it, the better for a whole lot of mine workers who, through no fault of their own, are about to lose a set of benefits.

We have to give them a way ahead, a path, something to look forward to.

Can I ask one last question? You talked a lot about the Air Force's being a key innovator.

One of the points you mentioned was my next question, and that is this maintainer shortfall.

The maintenance is layered between Active, Guard, and Reserve?

I believe it is going to be where we are going to spend most of our time investing to pull those three grids together.

They are a very important ally. If confirmed, obviously, I will build a close relationship with their military leadership.