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Washington (CNN)The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee will hear a set of more than 20 bipartisan bills during its second hearing focusing on addressing the opioid crisis, CNN has learned.

While most hearings on legislation don't last more than a day, this hearing is scheduled to begin on March 21 and will last for two days, committee Republican aides tell CNN.

Last month, North Carolina’s U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson introduced the “Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act,” a bipartisan response to the opioid crisis that could help prevent the misuse or diversion of unused medications.

The bill would give hospice professionals the legal authority to safely dispose of unused drugs after a hospice patient’s death. That would ensure medicine is not diverted out into the community.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan MISSION ZERO Act introduced by Representative Richard Hudson (D-NC). The legislation will assist assigning Department of Defense trauma surgeons to civilian trauma centers, filling a gap in care observed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Last month Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-08) hosted a Service Academy Nomination Ceremony in Concord at the Cabarrus County Library in Concord to congratulate students for being nominated to a U.S. Service Academy.

Hudson has the privilege of nominating a limited number of young men and women each year to four of the five service academies: U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy,and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Ben was this year’s only nominee from Stanly County.

President Donald Trump and congressional leaders saluted Billy Graham as the plain wooden casket bearing the evangelist’s body arrived in the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday morning to lay in honor. Graham is the first American clergyman – and only the fourth private citizen – to be honored in that way.

“Today we give thanks for this extraordinary life, and it’s very fitting that we do so right here in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, where the memory of the American people is enshrined,” Trump said. “Here in this room we are reminded that America is a nation sustained by prayer.”

A representative of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday that the agency could not guarantee a reimbursement commitment to the city of Fayetteville for the planned Devonwood lower dam reconstruction.

That dam is also known as the McFadyen Drive dam. The city owns the dam and the road over the structure that’s off Morganton Road, to the north end of the Devonwood subdivision.