Kathy Castor

We shouldn't wait until a person is in an acute crisis to provide needed care and services.

I believe in the power of prevention, and that we need to do more to catch many conditions, including mental illnesses, early before they progress.

the importance of it. The State of Florida, unfortunately, just last week, rejected a republican State Senate plan to expand Medicaid in Florida.

I want to keep the focus on implementation of the Mental Health Parity Act.

The root problem is awareness of what is and isn't allowed under the law.

What a privilege it is to live in a country that has been able to show such environmental stewardship and balance it against economic progress.

We have been able to combine environmental progress, cleaner air, cleaner water, oversight of chemicals with economic progress and good jobs.

I don't think anyone can argue that America is better off because we breathe cleaner air.

certainly we can continue the environmental progress to improve the public health and balance it against the economic needs of the country.

Doesn't the export heavy focus run counter to America's policy imperative to reduce carbon pollution?

America's energy infrastructure is aging, it is not well-matched with the new sources of supply.

Sometimes you have recalcitrant states--there is an unwritten state policy in Florida right now, you can't even say climate change.

In Medicaid, every dollar counts, because these are dollars that go, in large part, to children and their health care needs, and our older neighbors in nursing homes, and other hard working Americans.

We felt that this was an important vulnerability or an issue to address.

I would hope you would open it up to local collaboratives or regional collaboratives.

I thank my colleague. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of the Castor amendment, which is an amendment in support of military families across the country. It expresses the sense of Congress that, when it comes to housing military members…

I think it is moving in the right direction.

We will only save lives unless we have robust funding of medical research in America.

My amendment increases the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy account by $266 million, to simply restore it to last year's levels, with an offset from the fossil energy account. My amendment will boost energy efficiency and renewable…

I would say that the burgeoning jobs being created in American manufacturing and energy efficiency and renewable energy are more than just cute. They are the jobs of the future in America, a clean energy future. I urge my colleagues to…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 21, line 5, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $266,161,000)''. Page 22, line 20, after the dollar amount insert…

As--under current laws, EPA begins down the road with the Clean Power Plan, you--EPA will set the overall carbon emission reduction goals under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, and then it is up to States to determine how best to…

And as States begin to set the goals and establish plans for carbon reduction, it is clear that consumers' pocketbooks will be better off when States plan ahead, and when they use many different and varied tools to reduce carbon emission.

Well, it seems that there are opportunities out there that we would think every State would want to take advantage of, and some States are further ahead than others, and that is what the Clean Power Plan anticipates, is that those kinds of…

Now, one of the problems I see in--especially in my home State of Florida where the costs of the changing climate are so severe in the years is the problem the State utility framework and how--and the costs that they can consider...