WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:
**Watch The Hearing Here**
Today, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rick Scott (R-FL), ranking member and chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, held the first ever congressional hearing on menopause. At the hearing, expert witnesses testified about the urgent need to improve menopause research, training, and care.
Additionally, Gillibrand and Scott made a bipartisan request to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate how the federal government currently coordinates and funds menopause research and care.
"Menopause impacts over half of our population, and the fact that Congress has never held a hearing on it is...