02/03/2009
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"This subcommittee has made behavioral health, I might add, a major priority, including the doubling for SAMHSA over the last 8 years from $3,800,000,000 to roughly $7,600,000,000."
"I have seen the positive impact of substance use in our--we have peer review counselors now, crisis response teams around the country, one in my own hometown of New Haven, Connecticut."
"Thank you so much, Chairman Aderholt, for holding this critically important hearing this morning on the Department of Education's budget."
"I think we ought to examine the kinds of authority that HHS should have, and quite frankly, that should not be an unfunded mandate."