"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."
"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."
"I think the Department of Education, we had mental health counselors in schools. That is first line, as well, to look at that and put resources there."
"I am a long-time supporter of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, that looks at mental health care for kids."
"We know during the pandemic, public health infrastructure almost collapsed on us."
"We need to not backslide on our public health investments."
"we were trying to get women and minorities into the clinical trials."
"And early childhood, I was just in a daycare center in New Haven last Friday, and they take infants, 6 weeks."
"We are grateful to Representative DeLauro for reintroducing her bill this Congress, H.R. 660, Ethan's Law..."
"A comprehensive immigration policy will get us to where we need to be."