Joseph P. Kennedy III

we can't address something we don't know to be a crisis if we don't even know how big a crisis that it is

Would adding doula services as a covered benefit under Medicaid... reduce rates of preventable maternal deaths or complications?

What systematic reforms would you like to see in our healthcare system beyond that mandatory training?

Mr. Cohen. Mr. Chairman, totally feasible and proof of concept--three examples in history. Sweden, Ontario, and France virtually decarbonized their grid in 20 years, OK, and they did it with a combination of technologies. We can do it if…

Would you characterized the proposed cut by 95 percent as being very strong support, sir?

Thank you for hosting this incredibly important hearing.

Instead of looking for ways to weaken the protections of Medicaid, I hope that we can find a way to work together to find a way to strengthen those programs by providing the territories the funding that they so desperately need.

There has been some discussion about the (j) waiver, which is essentially a broad waiver authority that is available to American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands.

I am grateful to my colleague, Representative Lori Trahan, for introducing H.R. 2139, the Leonel Rondon Pipeline Safety Act to address the issues leading to this tragic event.

the administration's proposal to reauthorize PHMSA goes even further than current law in proposing to criminalize rightful peaceful protests in the name of pipeline safety.

I thank the chairman for having this important hearing to address pipeline safety and thank you to our witnesses for being here.

I would like to add one more area of focus to today's conversation and something that is particularly important to me: RTO governance and transparency into the stakeholder process in our wholesale markets.

I want to thank the chairman, the real chairman, for holding the important hearing, and for all of our Commissioners for being here today.

Nearly every day, families and communities are at greater risk of losing access to clean air and clean water at the expense of political convenience.

this dangerous and misleading proposal to undermine mercury and toxic air protections is a new low and unnecessarily creates risks to both public health and the environment.

Over the past 2 1A½ years, the Trump administration has upheld its promise time and again to roll back critical environmental protections.

According to the EPA's website, quote, "the mission of the EPA is to protect human health and the environment," end quote.

Yet despite that success, EPA is now proposing to reverse its own findings and perhaps the entire MATS regulatory structure.

Since 2012, the EPA has written a success story for public health and the environment through its implementation of mercury and toxic air standards, MATS.

Mercury can be highly toxic to infants, children, and adults, including severe consequences to heart, kidney, and immune system functions.

So I appreciate that. Denmark, as it turns out, was rated by Avik Roy as one of the countries that was free and a competitive market for drugs, not a country that engages in price controls.

Is it really appropriate to continue to keep charging the taxpayer for those research risks on the back of an old product?

So you say that you need to fund continued scientific innovation.

Amgen establishes a list price for our medicines in the context of an established set of pricing principles.

A significant portion of those cleanup dollars, some 30 to 60 percent for individual sites' budgets, according to testimony, is going to what's called minimum safety, or min-safe, work.