It is absolutely vital that everyone with substance use disorder, the potential for it and mental illness, get the care they need as soon as possible.

Yet, this administration will be arguing before the Supreme Court in just a few months that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down.

So, Ms. Brandt, are you familiar with the statistics showing that the percentage of people hospitalized with a substance use disorder who did not have health insurance dropped from 20 percent to just five percent in states that expanded…

Even worse, as long as this administration continues to cut holes into the very safety net system... we will fail without a doubt.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and I want to thank Ranking Member Burgess for convening this hearing today and for taking proactive steps to combat the Opioid epidemic.

A concern, and again for the record that waste was there long before, for a long time.

There is, I think, unambiguous evidence from epidemiology and environmental literature that ultra-fine particles, also known as UFPs, are a very component of air pollution.

I don't expect you to be intimately familiar with this project and we just sent you the letter a little while ago, but there is concern back home in Massachusetts about what could come with the burying of these materials that are already…

I want to thank you for convening this hearing.

there is a seventy-one percent proposed cut to that office under EPA, which I would hope----

I look forward to working with your office and the implementation of that because I have a bit more concern about how that is being defined

So refugees having access to healthcare is a success?