On the security side, for example, there is a little over $300 million, largely working with the communities to increase rule of law.
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I think it is a small portion of the DOD budget that we devote to training foreign militaries whether it is overseas or bringing foreign military leaders here.
I do not want OCO to end up being like the Willie Sutton line, 'Why do you rob banks? That is where the money is.'
So that is not something where, you know, we need to provide policy alteration in order to enable it, but this is just a matter of something that is going to take a while to get fully implemented?
I guess we cannot affect, you know, the inside Russia dynamic, but we can affect the degree to which surrounding, neighboring countries are more resilient to that aggression.
I think what we have done in the two two-year deals that we have done, the Murray-Ryan deal in December 2013 and the deal we got in October of 2015, is basically not only have we done two-year budgets, but we have decided we will treat the…
I really like two-year budgets. I am a former governor. We always did two-year budgets.
Mr. Pitkin, on the ARB, the unaddressed three, I think I will ask the classified question as a question for the record that can obviously be submitted back classified.
If we help those economies be stronger, we can slow the unaccompanied minors.
Last question. Mr. Chair, I wanted to just ask--and this may be less budgetary than programmatic.
If I read it right, the INCLE funding for the security initiative has been about $70 million a year, but the Fiscal Year 2017 request cut it in half to $35 million.
And thanks to all of the witnesses. I would like to start, if I could, Leah and Evelyn, the engagement of survivors is really a core piece of what policy should be.
What is the best way to make that money really help solve some of these security challenges?
We ought to be talking about the best way to program those monies to do the most good.
I am assuming all of you see the value, also, of expanded--again, under appropriate conditions--of expanded naloxone access.
If we can get naloxone into the hands of more folks, then we can help turn that tide.
Do you all generally agree that we ought to get these prescriber guidelines out into the public realm so that the solo practitioner or the hospital chain can all have some sort of best practice that they can utilize when deciding whether…
I signed up and took one of the classes in Lebanon, Virginia, which is in Southwest Virginia, two summers ago.
If we use so many prescription opioids that we have had to develop a separate drug to deal with the constipation effect of opioids, and if the marketing potential of this drug is so massive that we will pay the ads for the NFC and AFC…
This would be a worthwhile thing to do because of the prevalence of opioid use and overdoses.
I have been traveling around the Commonwealth since I came into the Senate in 2013, and everywhere I go, this is what people want to talk about.





