Jackie Speier: “I believe that what we should be doing is looking at where the holes are, in terms of making sure the ACA is effective.”

How will you ensure that the Special Trial Counsels are highly experienced and effective, and that you have enough of them for the rising caseloads of covered offenses?

Please provide a brief summary of actions taken so far to implement each IRC recommendation that has been tasked to the services.

We must restore local control to the community.

I thank the gentlewoman for her powerful comments. On top of everything else, we passed one law which was the Hyde amendment, that said you can't use Federal funds for medical abortions, so Medicaid was not made available for that purpose…