Mental health parity is an essential part of comprehensive reform.

Thank you very much. And I would like to thank all the witnesses for being here today to testify on such an important issue.

What we really want to do today is treat mental illness as a disease and afford the same prevention, early intervention, and treatment that we strive to have for physical illnesses.

In some ways it breaks my heart, and I wish we could get over this game we play around here where it is a Republican piece of legislation, and a couple of my friends on the left feel obligated to stand up and oppose it, even though you and…

Mr. Chairman, I was just listening to my friend from New York, and I would like just sort of a little consistency. At one point we talk about job growth and the desperate need for more job growth, but then how many have come behind the…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today with grave concerns over a recent Justice Department Inspector General report detailing how Federal Prison Industries manufactured defective military equipment that endangered the lives of our troops. The DOJ…

Mr. Speaker, on July 14, House Republicans streamed out of the Capitol as I stood on this floor with my Democratic colleagues calling for action on the public health crises facing our country: gun violence, Zika, and Flint, Michigan's…

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by 5-minute votes on adopting…

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 237, noes 181, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 490]…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call upon the House of Representatives to address our broken immigration system, one that serves our national security poorly, one that inhibits the ability of law enforcement to keep our communities safe and…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I thank the gentleman for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. Mr. Speaker, over 6 months ago, the Obama administration actually identified the Zika virus as a public health crisis…

Mr. Speaker, I do have a speaker, but I can't locate her right now. I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The gentleman talked about the Micro Offering Safe Harbor Act. Again, I think that there is the kernel of a good idea there, if the good idea would be to streamline the excess…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, again, while I do applaud Democrats and Republicans for coming together around H.R. 5424, the Investment Advisers Modernization Act, I wish that we had come together around…

I thank my colleague and friend, Congressman Joe Kennedy, for his efforts to build on his family's legacy.

In New Mexico, right now, we have an issue before us where the State of New Mexico under Governor Susana Martinez unnecessarily suspended payments to 15 behavioral health providers.

We have grave concern and we are looking for some support.

There is absolutely a connection between lack of addressing mental health and substance use services and deterioration of other health conditions.