"So I am thankful and grateful that my bipartisan bill, the Suicide Training and Awareness Nationally Delivered for Universal Prevention Act, or the STANDUP Act, is included in today's hearing."
"Thanks very much, Madam Chairman, and thanks very much for having this important hearing today considering critical bills to improve Americans' mental health."
"Adolescent suicide and violence against others is preventable."
"the monumental challenge that our country is facing has come in large part due to the failure to develop and deploy sufficient diagnostic testing in time to monitor and control the spread of the virus..."
"Growing data show the extent to which COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting poor and minority communities."
"The most vulnerable Americans are the hardest hit by climate change."
"Weakening clean air protections and rolling back regulatory protections, again, threatens to cost more lives."
"Anything we do to mitigate climate change will have the greatest effect and the most benefit to those same communities."
"I hope that our committee thinks about, as we recover from the pandemic, investing in things that both create jobs and reduce carbon emissions."
"when we get out of this, not sooner, we will have to work to get our debt on a sustainable path in comparison to the economy."
"I do want to join in the condolences to the George Floyd family, but also I want to remind people that we have an obligation to do something about the problem."