"If we could make more funding available for both of those things, to Native youth, but to any doctors that are coming to Indian country, I think that would be a great, great help."
"There is a shockingly low number of American Indian and Alaskan Native students who pursue medical careers."
"Many his facilities are rural, surrounded by insufficient housing and have other infrastructure deficiencies that make it challenging for providers and their families to relocate."
"This is a good day. It is a good day to finally have an Energy and Commerce hearing solely on Tribal policy issues."
"We have been working on these Tribal issues together for years now, including on the Indian Health Service Task Force."
"COVID-19 has shined a spotlight on the inequity that we already knew existed in our healthcare system."
"It is what motivated me to become a doctor in the first place and what eventually motivated me to run for Congress."
"That is why I introduced H.R. 6692, the Environmental Justice COVID-19 Act, which would authorize $50 million for EPA EJ grant programs."
"COVID-19 has exacerbated what we have known all along, that low-income rural communities and minority communities have greater disparities in health."
"I also introduced the comprehensive H.R. 3923, the Environmental Justice Act of 2019, which requires agencies to consider the environmental justice implications of their programs."
"Riverside County, the county in which my district resides, like so many others have seen, that the impacts of this pandemic have disproportionately and adversely affected vulnerable communities."