We are not only working to reauthorize the Act, we are also working to modernize it.

We are grateful for the witnesses, for your testimony, and for bringing your own life experience as well as your professional experience to bear.

I am committed to building on my work in the last reauthorization to bolster support for older adults throughout Pennsylvania and throughout the Nation.

I am committed to building on my work in the last reauthorization to bolster support for older adults throughout Pennsylvania and throughout the Nation.

This funding was critical to the success of Area Agencies on Aging during the pandemic.

I am working to pass the Strategic Plan for Aging Act along with Senator Gillibrand to incentivize states to bolster public-private partnerships.

We are not only working to reauthorize the Act, we are also working to modernize it.

Thank you, Senator Blumenthal. We will turn to our first witness, Ms. Billotte.

We are grateful for the witnesses, for your testimony, and for bringing your own life experience as well as your professional experience to bear.

This funding was critical to the success of Area Agencies on Aging during the pandemic.

I will not support any attempts to undermine vital programs that support older adults in Pennsylvania and across the country.

I believe that the facts that have been laid out at this hearing... are sufficient to demand action by this Committee.

Thank you, Senator Blumenthal.

Thank you, Ranking Member Braun. I will do my questions now that I am back.

I am working to pass the Strategic Plan for Aging Act along with Senator Gillibrand to incentivize states to bolster public-private partnerships.

I think there are a few diseases where literally every breath you take, you can feel it.

I think there are a few diseases where literally every breath you take, you can feel it.

I want to thank President Roberts for his work, his toil, and, dare I say, sweat on behalf of miners.

Well, Ms. Grenfell, thank you, and thanks for those--you said 48 years?

Thanks so much and I appreciate you having this hearing along with the Ranking Member.

I am advocating to triple the amount of funding for Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Programs in the Older Americans Act reauthorization.

You have dedicated your life to this work. Thanks so much for that.

The carnage in the coalfields from this preventable disease must stop.

I want to thank President Roberts for his work, his toil, and, dare I say, sweat on behalf of miners.

The carnage in the coalfields from this preventable disease must stop.