Joseph P. Kennedy III: “Except the data that you are looking at seems to indicate that there are tens of thousands of people that are losing…”

But now, as cases of COVID-19 reaches historic highs on a daily basis, we need to act quickly and to learn from our mistakes and protect the people that we serve.

This is, in all likelihood, my last committee hearing as well. It has been an extraordinary honor and pleasure and privilege for me to join all of you on the best committee in Congress.

mistrust amongst people of color isn't surprising considering the long history of structural racism and unethical medical experimentation on this population.

I can't help but think a huge uptick in the prescribing of benzodiazepines, coupled with huge increases in alcohol consumption, and then, of course, coupled with the new commercialization of marijuana, that we don't have a kind of major…