Diana DeGette

We have all talked about the fact that climate science indicates we need to cut net global greenhouse gas emissions in half in 10 years and then reduce the net emissions to zero in 30 years or we will expose our children, grandchildren…

I can assure all of you, and everyone in the audience, this committee does intend to stay on this issue.

It can be bought anonymously on the Dark Web, and because it is so potent, small but deadly quantities of the drug can be shipped in packages.

Fentanyl can be used on its own or can be mixed with other drugs.

Fentanyl is exceedingly dangerous. It is 50 times more powerful than heroin, 100 times more powerful than morphine.

Today, we are here once again to discuss the opioid crisis, an epidemic this country has been battling for years.

Fentanyl is also cheap and it's easy to produce, giving a high return for those who seek to profit from the destruction that it causes.

Fentanyl is extremely dangerous. It is 50 times more powerful than heroin, 100 times more powerful than morphine.

Today, we are once again here to discuss the opioid crisis, an epidemic that this country has been battling for years.

I just want to say this is the problem we are having with your agency every day, is a lack of cooperation, a lack of documents, a lack of disclosure, and this will not be allowed to continue.

I think we should all work together on both sides of the aisle to pass robust birth control legislation.

If we want to prevent unwanted pregnancies, if want to prevent increases in abortion, or in unwanted children being born, then we should have robust family planning programs that are evidence-based.

What it says is we can give Title X money to organizations that will not--where the organization will not provide the patient with the full range of healthcare information that they need, even if the patient requests it.

The law that we have all been talking about says none of the funds appropriated under this Title shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.

I think there has been a little confusion today and I think we need to be really clear what we are talking about.

It is outside the purview of this...

The title of this hearing is on the Protecting Title X and Safe-Guarding Quality Family Planning Care.

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So this would be far, far more reaching than the Department would seem to indicate.

These new rules not only contradict professional ethics and practice guidelines, they perpetuate a system of injustice.

Everyone deserves access to the full range of contraceptive methods.

It is an attempt to strip from my patients their basic human rights.

You have elevated ideology over evidence in the public health and you have done so to the detriment of women and families.

So Title X serves a disproportionately high number of black and Latinx patients, compared to national rates.

What I find interesting is the wordsmithing that has been taking place here today. None of what you are trying to preempt has even occurred.