Lucille Roybal-Allard

Increasing access to midwives will help address maternity care shortages while lowering costs and providing high-quality care.

We must do everything that we can to ensure the safety of women. It is also critical to recognize that maternal mortality is just the tip of the iceberg.

The All of Us research initiative has the potential to radically change what we know about minority health and how we approach the elimination of health disparities.

But I think you can see in the numbers between the acute investigation and the rising youth use of e-cigarettes that there is a growing problem, and diminished resources would not help.

Expanding the scientific workforce for biomedical and behavioral research and increasing its racial, cultural, and disciplinary diversity is one of NLM's strategic goals.

For a long time one of the things that has troubled me is the overuse of psychotropic drugs in our foster care system.

Let's follow both the letter and the spirit of the law.

We have heard from child welfare specialists time and time again that this kind of restrictive setting like Homestead is extremely harmful to the children.

But yet I have to tell you that throughout our visit to the Homestead facility, it was obvious to all of us that the shelter was run more like a prison than like a child-appropriate housing.

I find this not only disturbing because there are alternatives to detention that are less costly and more humane and dignified.

While I continue to believe the majority of your personnel carry out their mission in a professional manner and treat those in their custody with humanity, I have significant concerns about the reports of mistreatment by some Border Patrol…

We have serious concerns about ICE's ability to manage its budget within the means provided by Congress.

As chair of this subcommittee, I am committed to ensuring the integrity of our borders and strengthening our immigration system.

One of the things that I find very concerning is that despite the guidance exempting vulnerable populations from placement in the Migrant Protection Protocols Program, we have been made aware that pregnant women and LGBT migrants have…

I guess what I am trying to find out is what is the weakness in the system that has made it--that has allowed, in these cases, for vulnerable populations to in fact be returned to Mexico?

Yet these posts continued, and it appears that there is a subculture among agents that has been allowed to propagate because the agency has been too tolerant of this small but pervasive subculture.

The issue is that ICE has been going into communities, arresting people who are dropping their children off at school.

We witnessed migrants continuing to be held in inhumane conditions.

This administration's politicization of border security and heartless obsession with aggressive immigration enforcement are un-American and unacceptable.

ICE should prioritize removal efforts on those with serious criminal histories, not those who have lived and worked peacefully in our communities for decades.

I happen to believe that this would help the problem by realigning incentives for generics to come to market sooner.

Let me just say that in your testimony you highlighted the fact that unemployment was down among disadvantaged groups, and I would venture to say that one of the reasons that is true is because of the programs that you now have in place…

I am introducing a bill called the CARE Act to see what we can do to better protect those children.

We use the scientific basis to get people who are anti-vaccination... to provide them with what sound evidence-based data.

Students may be better served by being in larger classes if by hiring fewer teachers a district or state can better compensate those who have demonstrated high-quality and outstanding results.