Tony Cárdenas: “Solutions can be made. My main point to everybody is we have to all calm down and realize that, when we are calm and…”

Thank you very much. Appreciate Chairman Bilirakis, and also Ranking Member Schakowsky, for holding this hearing.

The 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is saving lives by providing urgent and timely responses to individuals in crisis.

There's a difference between funding sent to a department so that they can get their work done versus funding in order for programs to give grants out to communities.

The suggestion that this program should be narrowed to only those who would not otherwise have broadband seems to me to ignore the reality of family budgets.