Can you talk to me more about both the program within CARA, encouraging VAs to reduce the use of opiate medication, or any other examples that you might have in the system?

Thank you for choosing this topic. I am particularly interested, as the cochair, the founding cochair, of our congressional Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic.

As I say to my colleagues, heroin does not choose R's and D's. We can work together.

I particularly want to thank the GAO and the IG for their helpful reports.

It seems what I'm hearing is that this is often just an added task.

I just hope that this Committee will have the chance to indicate our concerns about the raids and the impact on the farm economy.

Sadly, we have witnessed 19 of our 120 dairy farms going out of the commercial dairy business as a result of a drought.

Part of the problem for us is that the MPP uses the national average feed cost, and my question is, that fails to take into account the higher transportation and labor costs.

I am concerned, as I know many Americans are, about the impact of these immigration raids on our agricultural community.

I would take you up on the GAO's suggestion that we get quarterly reports.

I just hope this technology is not obsolete by the time you get it in place.

So I just want to join those of us on both sides of the aisle about our frustration.