Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my amendment to H.R. 986, the Protecting Patients with Preexisting Conditions Act. Quality, affordable healthcare is a fundamental human right, period. No one should have to face financial ruin while…

Do you believe the Administration's efforts to undermine the ACA will help in the opioid crisis?

your Administration has indicated that they plan to eradicate and end the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the next decade.

Excuse me. I am sorry. But at the same time, you are intent on overturning the ACA, rolling back protections for preexisting conditions, and undermining the expansion of Medicaid, which can be a critical source for addiction treatment.

So, yes or no, do you have a partnership?

Structural racism and systemic biases have shaped our responses to addiction, which has resulted in the criminalizing and the devastating of whole communities for decades.

So, those reentering society, they are 40 times more likely to die from an opioid overdose.

Mr. Chair, I rise to offer an amendment to H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act. My amendment is a commonsense amendment that reaffirms the interconnection between climate change and public health disparities plaguing communities across our…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, after line 19, insert the following paragraph: (3) The Paris Agreement specifies the…

It belongs to the more than 6 million Americans who are caught in a criminal legal system...

Madam Speaker, I regret that a logistical conflict prevented me from making the vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 170.