Ed Markey

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…

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. You need--if you get the tools, you will be able to help families.

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.

How will that help Senator Murkowski's problem in Alaska?

Social media is implicated.

But methadone for opioid use disorder, it has a stigma. It is restricted.

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

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

The reason we are here today is to identify those challenges and chart a path toward a future where help is there when you need it.

Thank you, Dr. Taylor. I wanted unanimous consent to enter into the record two letters from 94 supporting organizations and other clinicians supporting expanding access to methadone and to pass the Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act.

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.

Thank you for hosting this hearing and for the opportunity to share our thoughts on how to bridge the gap in access to pediatric mental health and substance use disorder care.

No one in our Nation has been spared the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and child and adolescent psychiatrists and their teams have been on the frontlines.

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

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

There's nothing ultimately more important than democratization of access to opportunity through broadband access.

Congress has made historic investments in broadband.

I think it's a terrifying possibility, both in the short term and in the long term, in terms of the harm to children's learning if this fund expires.

Yes. And again we know we have a crisis in the country. One in three teenage girls contemplated suicide last year.

The pandemic helped to expose the holes in the fabric of our digital infrastructure.

There's nothing ultimately more important than democratization of access to opportunity through broadband access.

The Internet has to remain a free and open space for exchange of ideas. Non-discrimination is the bedrock to that.