mr. schweikert: all right. have a great evening. mr. speaker, we're going to do a couple of thing this is evening and try to tie it together so hopefully some of this makes sense. but i'm going to start off with just a one-off. last week, i had a gentleman knock on my front door of my home and you know, for all of us who are elected in this sort of time where things are a little anxious, it's always a bit, you stand up a bit when someone you done know is at your front door. turns out it's a really smart gentleman, he is a ph.d. in amphibians, lives down the street from me. he had something he wanted to share. this is something i didn't expect. it was a complete one-off. but he told me the story of what had happened just a couple of weeks earlier. he had this beloved dog, i'm going to psychiatry up the -- screw up the breed, i think it was a malamute, just a big, beautiful, fuzzy white dog. apparently the canine had gotten his wife's purse and chewed up some gum. i know this seems like a weird thing to do on the floor of the house but it

mr. schweikert: mr. speaker, i would like to yield a couple minutes to my other friend from california, mr. nunes. mr. nunes: i want to thank the gentleman from arizona forgiving some extended -- for giving some extended time to recognize jerry lewis who was really a statesman, a congressman from the inland empire. a good friend to all of us. words that i wrote down was that jerry really was a one-man institution on capitol hill. served in the house for more than 30 years. he was extremely effective at serving his constituents. he always kept his constituents in the inland empire in mind. and he was always popular with them. he never lost, never received less than 61% of his vote in any of his congressional races. he was a veteran congressman and when i first came to the house in 2003, i actually already knew him. because, as typical of jerry, he liked to work with young people. the time, in the 1980's and 1990's, he and the congressman from bakerfield would hold conferences to talk to young people about

mr. schweikert, to inquire. >> -- thank you, this is my moment to thank mr. thompson for his dog and focus on tele-health and it has worked. we did something i'm using a couple of weeks ago, we looked at the previous couple of years, memos and those sorts of things about telemedicine. and how skeptical many of our staff and brothers and sisters were, now that we have been through it. and we realize what a plus it was. i desperately hope you will join us in getting it so that it is extended, that it does not come to an end, the expansion, once the pandemic is cleared over. >> and mister secretary, one of the thing. and this is the big picture. both in reading your budget over the weekend, but also our own conversation we are having today, money of us talk about health care mobility in a life of who gets subsidized, and who gets not subsidized, instead of what we pay. and i will beg of you, start thinking about what we pay, because over the next 30 years, the hundred plus trillion dollars of u.s. sovereign debt, that will be on the books in today's dollars, 67%

mr. schweikert on this committee that will ensure that patients can continue accessing telehealth services. so my first question would be good you talk about how you view the next steps for telehealth, now does the administration envisioned incorporating telehealth into the medicare program? and in second, we have got this just huge number of ongoing mental health challenges in our country. substance abuse, addiction, homelessness, suicide, depression, the goes on and on and on. and we see the impacts of these cries all around us, in the homeless population, in prisons and jails come amongst our veteran population and amongst our teenagers. i've got legislation that would expand mental health services for seniors in medicare that is going to take a lot more than that. i do like to know how hhs is approaching this challenge? can you talk more about your efforts underway as secretary in your department to combat mental health? >> congressman thompson great to see you again. look for to visiting in your district and abiding in the refreshment such a bother that is so popular at some point. le