I appreciate the opportunity to testify about the importance of providing funding to continue to address the problems of opioid and heroin addiction.

Access to Veterans Treatment Courts is a simple bipartisan way that we can support our veterans.

The bill would authorize community-based institutional special needs plan demonstration program to provide home and community-based long-term services and supports to low-income Medicare beneficiaries.

Many seniors prefer to remain in their homes--in fact, they are more healthy as a result of it--to receive the care that they need.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and the full committee, for your participation and allowing us to take this opportunity.

The demand for long-term care services and supports continue to increase.

The Marine Corps V-22 Osprey program has been involved in some of the most sophisticated combat operations since it became operational in 2009.

I want to express my deep appreciation, not just for your holding this hearing, but for taking the time to consider the real matters of priority-setting with regard to our national defense.

It was so critical. We watched the workers on this program and their ability to create the efficiencies with the multiyear contracting.

And it will take vital tools out of the hands of our battlefield commanders.

Unfortunately, the President's fiscal year 2017 budget request unexpectedly reduced the procurement of the Osprey aircraft by two airframes.