I am honored to serve as the Chairman of the Committee on Veterans Affairs' Subcommittee on Health.

Thank you to the Ranking Member, Representative Julia Brownley. Thank you for requesting this hearing in the first place.

I would like to begin by thanking Subcommittee Ranking Member Congresswoman Julia Brownley for her hard work.

please include Representative Brownley and our Committee in that report, if you would, please.

I thank you for giving me the opportunity to visit this beautiful part of the country.

I think we have already overcome having to have somebody go to their homes and removing the technological challenge.

So the VA funding is, of course, of immediate interest to us but also the NIH funding.

I think we ought to be able to lean into this as soon as we get the signature on the final document.

I get that. But you are doing clinical trials down there in L.A. What is the availability up here in Ventura to participate in those clinical trials for these Veterans up here?

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