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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysarss0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:40 a.m., in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Roy Blunt (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Blunt, Alexander, Moran, Kennedy, Rubio, Murray, and Shaheen. MENTAL HEALTH CARE: EXAMINING TREATMENTS AND SERVICES OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR ROY BLUNT Senator BLUNT. Welcome to this hearing of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. We are cer- tainly glad to have our four witnesses here today: Dr. Joe Parks, the Medical Director for the National Council of Behavioral Health, also a great asset to our office in his past job as a mental health leader in our State and as a professor and current job, professor at the University of Missouri; Dr. David Johnson, CEO of Navos Mental Health Solutions in Seattle, Washington; Dr. Dennis Free- man, CEO of the Cherokee Health System in Knoxville, Tennessee; and Chief Don De Lucca, the president of the International Asso- ciation of Chiefs of Police. A lot is going on this morning, including a couple of votes that we didn't anticipate at 10:30 a.m. So members will come and go, and questions will probably be repeated because the questions we don't hear, we don't know for sure are asked, and I assume you are like me-used to answering the same question over and over again anyway. So this hopefully shouldn't be too big an imposition on our guests today. I am going to submit my full remarks for the record. This is clearly an issue that the Congress has taken real atten- tion to in the last couple of years, more than maybe in the time before that, an understanding of how many Americans and how many families are impacted by mental health issues and, I believe, a renewed commitment to do more about it. So we are glad all of you are here. Senator Murray will be here soon. I think she is going to vote first and then come over, but I (1)

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