Katherine Clark

You believe, the Commission believes, headed by you, that the guidance resulted in teachers and schools not really carrying out discipline because they were afraid of Federal action.

In your words, the guidance was, quote, 'well meaning' to address the fact that black boys are three times more likely to be suspended and black girls are six times as likely to be suspended.

I hope that the President or whoever talked the President into reversing his promises to the American people... will realize that he is turning his back on people who need help.

I hope you will reconsider what you are doing here with these cuts to Medicaid, that you are taking the most effective way we have that millions of Americans rely on to get treatment.

States with Medicaid expansion tripled access between 2014 and 2016 to opioid treatment compared to States that did not have expanded Medicaid.

That is a no. Thank you.

Are you willing to guarantee that with the proposed cuts, $1,500,000,000,000 with a 'T,' half trillion, in Medicaid...

The estimates are also that 10 percent of those suffering from SUD receive treatment.

Seventy thousand people died in 2017 alone from opioid overdoses.

I will invariably run into families who are devastated by the opioid crisis.

After the Parkland shooting, high school students in my district told me a heartbreaking truth. They didn't believe that Congress cared about their lives or their future. Sadly, I understood why. Complacency defined the Republican…

Let's try to help people, work through it in their own lives, but also just make sure we stop making those horrible mistakes again.

We are going to work hard to try to increase the funding levels. The testimony that we have had... is just a constant reminder of how we're not meeting our treaty obligations.

My presentation is a tribute to the late, great John D. Dingell, Jr. who loved the great outdoors.

We can't have a month-long furlough with all the grants and other deadlines that people need to make.

There are emergency transfers for Section 8 and homelessness assistant grants.

The shutdown definitely accelerated that in certain cases.

There is anxiety that the more modern, faster system is being retired and the clunkier Congress.gov is being preserved.

Currently, it is not a crime to enter this country seeking asylum.

We are here looking at how we can prevent gun violence, how we can prevent deaths from guns, and we know that that is a range, from suicides to mass shootings, and we need to have the data to look at all of this.

I can't think of another public health crisis where we have said there is no role for Federal research dollars.

Words fail me at how we are failing these children and these families.

When someone turns 18, they are considered an adult under the law, and so they go to an ICE detention center.

If we want robust coverage to be available to anyone at an affordable price, then we need to mandate some level of robust coverage for everyone.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding and for holding this important Special Order hour. It is so important that we tell the stories of the very real impact of this shutdown, and I appreciate her giving us that opportunity. I do want to…