Ed Markey

This is obviously a period where there is a devastating behavioral health crisis that threatens every community in this country.

Thank you very much for your leadership and support for S. 462, because I think the workforce shortage issues are really key.

Social media is implicated.

That does not make sense, to be honest. And that is a remnant of a really stigmatizing approach to the treatment of people with opioid use disorder.

Heroes will go--there are so many unsung heroes that do this work, and I am thankful to be in this field.

But today we are losing that fight. Last year, over 106,000 people died from an overdose.

Thank you to Senator Marshall for your shared commitment to addressing the mental health and substance use crisis in the United States.

This is designed neglect. It is not giving the agencies the resources they need.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, if you didn't want to help an issue or hurt an issue, you just engaged in benign neglect, you just don't do anything.

If we don't have public engagement and consultation with tribal and environmental justice groups, and if environmental assessment and impact statements are rushed or poorly done, progress can be held up in the courts and wind up with even…

We don't need to attack NEPA. We need better road signs, better drivers, a better road.

Some of the Republican proposals for permitting are the equivalent of trying to fix the car by throwing out the brakes and the steering column.

Right now, our project development systems in the country, it is like a car moving slowly down a bumpy road.

A vision without funding is a hallucination.

For any Senators who wish to ask additional questions for the record, they will be due in 10 business days, on June 1st at 5.00 p.m.

This is obviously a period where there is a devastating behavioral health crisis that threatens every community in this country.

Thank you very much for your leadership and support for S. 462, because I think the workforce shortage issues are really key.

Social media is implicated.

That does not make sense, to be honest. And that is a remnant of a really stigmatizing approach to the treatment of people with opioid use disorder.

Heroes will go--there are so many unsung heroes that do this work, and I am thankful to be in this field.

But today we are losing that fight. Last year, over 106,000 people died from an overdose.

Thank you to Senator Marshall for your shared commitment to addressing the mental health and substance use crisis in the United States.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, if you didn't want to help an issue or hurt an issue, you just engaged in benign neglect, you just don't do anything.

This is designed neglect. It is not giving the agencies the resources they need.

We don't need to attack NEPA. We need better road signs, better drivers, a better road.