Sherrod Brown

If any of you in the audience know, particularly those in veterans' service organizations like VFW, if you hear of those stories, you should always contact Congresswoman Beatty or me or Senator Portman. We will go to bat on that. That…

Thank you for that, Dr. Matthews.

Is there a uniform policy on not overprescribing?

We are all guilty, I guess.

Congress makes good speeches but does not really fund scaling up opioid treatment programs.

Ohio has more opioid deaths than any State in the country.

So, isn't the most important thing for all of you is to find those 14?

Your comments about suicide are troubling, as all comments about veteran suicide are troubling.

You said in your testimony Ohio averages 97 days to decide a claim. Twenty-two percent of Ohioans wait at least 125 days.

It is not just the military, is it?

There are 14 illnesses, 14 diseases, that are presumptive eligibility with Agent Orange.

We want every veteran to come to Ohio even if they are not from Ohio.

When medical science connects an illness to an environmental condition like burn pits or Agent Orange, that Congress needs to know it and move quickly.

I would argue that Ohio is better served than many States because we have Mr.

Senator Brown and his staff were able to help finally get answers about a grossly inaccurate $11,000 VA overpayment debt.

To my luck, Senator Brown and his staff were able to finally get answers about a grossly inaccurate $11,000 VA overpayment debt.

I will continue to assist in the fight for increased awareness in the VA medical system struggle, fairness for survivor benefits for all surviving family members, and increased availability to all veterans' benefits that we earned while…

It is an honor to have the national Commander-in-Chief of VFW, and thank you especially for your comments about the stigma of mental health.

Specifically, we would like to thank Senator Brown for his continued push to ensure survivors who use the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John D. Fry Scholarship can achieve their educational goals without accruing large student loan debts.

We would like to thank Senator Brown for his continued push to ensure survivors can achieve their educational goals without accruing large student debt.

We know that the VA and the Department of Defense do not always work together as well as they should.

This hearing will begin.

Hearings like this are important because the best ideas, frankly, do not come out of Washington.

It is pretty troubling that you are--you seem so blissfully unaware of who funded that lawsuit that clearly was targeted to take people's right to vote away.

There is, coming out of the Federalist Society and others, a real effort to restrict the right to vote in this country.