The biggest barrier to women of childbearing age receiving healthcare coverage is continuing refusal of 19 states, including my home State of Texas, to expand Medicaid.

Maternal mortality rose in the United States between 2000 and 2014 by 26 percent.

We need to make sure that postpartum, Medicaid doesn't stop within 60 days of delivering the baby.

Pregnancy-related death is nearly four times higher among African American women.

I have been working with my co-sponsor, Representative Herrera Beutler, to try to get this bill passed by the end of the year.

I think the first thing we can do is pass this bill.

Congress has a duty to act and reverse this terrible trend.

We need to make sure that all women have the kind of coverage they need.

In America in the 21st century, no woman should ever die of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth.

what women, especially black women, in the United States need is accountability.

H.R. 1318 is a tremendous step forward in showing that we do recognize, yes, black mamas matter.

What you can legislate is rules around training on implicit bias.

So I think it starts at the highest level of a policy environment and an environment that respects and cares for and prioritizes women and women's health and women and babies.

I see this firsthand, and believe you me, we couldn't see the front range for most of August in Denver because of the smoke.

Moving to value-based care is important. But we can't lose sight of the importance of the Stark Law in protecting the Medicare program from waste, fraud, and abuse.

I know, Dr. Goodrich, that CMS is now in the process of implementing those regulations.

And as I said in my opening statement, since the rules have been finalized CMS has taken several actions that could delay some of them or roll them back altogether.

my view and I think Congresswoman Schakowsky would really agree with me about this as one of the most effective ways to address if we see rampant nursing home abuses is when patients can bring class actions against some of these bad actors.

Fully one-third of Medicare residents in a skilled nursing home experienced harm from the care that they received and half of those cases were actually preventable.

we can enforce that 2016 rule that people don't have to be forced to sign arbitration agreements.

They're determined not to investigate Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin's business dealings.

I fear the Republicans are using this hearing for those purposes instead of addressing the serious issues raised by social media platforms that affect Americans' everyday lives.

Now, some have been found to violate Twitter's guidelines but others were not, and I think probably you and your staff agree that Twitter needs to do a better job of addressing instances where some of the users are using the platform to…

According to their own secret cover-up list, Republicans don't want the public to see President Trump's tax returns.

I appreciate you, Mr. Dorsey, taking this seriously and your entire organization so that we can really reduce these threats online.