Katherine Clark

The hideous truth has come out. You chose wealthy and well-connected people, child rapists, over the victims in this case.

There is no such thing as child prostitution under Federal law, only child sex trafficking.

This is horrifying and sick stuff.

I am sure you have come prepared to justify this cut to us, but it does not go unnoticed.

I am very interested in postpartum depression, as looking at mental health as part of maternal health.

I appreciate the situation you are in and I am sorry that each time you come before us you are facing significant budget cuts.

But it just puts such a glaring light on the need for mental health services.

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.

You would look and have to discipline white students at the same rates you were disciplining black students, however unfairly.

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.

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.