There has to be--yes.

I want to welcome our witnesses and thank them for being here, and the Chair wishes all of the members, everyone that is in the room, those that are here to observe, a blessed new year to each one of you and to your families.

No family should suffer the death of a child without knowing why, yet over 400 children and 3,600 infants die each year from unexplained causes.

Each year, 700 American women die and 50,000 women are severely injured due to complications related to child birth.

I'm proud to advance these bills and to continue our record of bipartisan productivity in the new year.

I am pleased we are reviewing this bill today and hopefully we can change that this year.

the United States, you said, is the most dangerous place in the developed world to deliver a baby.

This bill is going to move. It has to. And it really needs to be adopted by the Congress.

I think there--it continually is a reexamination, Madam Chairwoman.

That is the most commonsense solution, and I think this is the point where the enrollment periods just need to be modernized.

Today, we will continue that progress by examining seven bipartisan bills to improve Americans' healthcare and coverage.

The Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2019 introduced by Representatives Tim Ryan and Anthony Gonzalez invests $135 million annually to improve birth outcomes in high-risk communities by providing services to women and families before…