"I will invariably run into families who are devastated by the opioid crisis."
"Seventy thousand people died in 2017 alone from opioid overdoses."
"The estimates are also that 10 percent of those suffering from SUD receive treatment."
"States with Medicaid expansion tripled access between 2014 and 2016 to opioid treatment compared to States that did not have expanded Medicaid."
"Are you willing to guarantee that with the proposed cuts, $1,500,000,000,000 with a 'T,' half trillion, in Medicaid..."
"That is a no. Thank you."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You would look and have to discipline white students at the same rates you were disciplining black students, however unfairly."
"Madam Secretary, last year you came before us in answer to my question about a proposed budget cut to the Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants, under ESSA."