Patrick J. Kennedy: “On my honor, no, none, political pressure was applied to me in this case by anyone at the State Department, at the…”

What we're trying to do is make the spirit of parity a practical reality.

When we have an emergency, FEMA comes in. They've got housing, job opportunities, support of this and that. We need a strategy that understands that housing is critical to address the homeless epidemic of people with severe mental illness…

We wouldn't expect any less if there were any other illness. And yet we settled for less than 20 percent of Americans getting any of that today in this country.

We have so underfunded this system for so long, why is it a big surprise that we don't have enough providers in the field?