Lori Trahan

This provision will offer some much-needed relief.

The need for these funds to upgrade wastewater systems cannot be overstated.

I would ask that you include the highest funding level possible for the CSO grants program.

Two years ago, I came before this committee to urge the advancement of two critical priorities.

We also owe it to all of our constituents, particularly our young people, to do more to defeat SUD.

the substance use disorder epidemic has claimed too many lives in all of our districts, red and blue alike.

The last thing overworked parents need right now--especially right now--are more complex to-dos.

We are all very concerned about our younger children.

Connecting with others is one thing. Adding filters, no breaks for kids to take, and manipulating the design of these apps for our children is another.

The more time my first-grader spends scrolling through an app, the less time she is playing outside.

I am proud that my State made this decision early on to expand Medicaid coverage, and I hope the remaining States will make that same decision.

I think it is clear from the testimony that Medicaid expansion offers tremendous benefits, and it is cost effective and provides quality, affordable care to those in most need.

We are excited about expanding upon that as well.

The pandemic highlighted the need for our country to rethink and be creative about the way we provide healthcare.

The LIFT America Act authorizes $500 million in grants to support the improvement, renovation, or modernization of infrastructure.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and the committee for convening this important hearing.

Although they may be less likely to experience severe symptoms from COVID, we should not minimize the fact that many have suffered very real harm over the past 12 months.

Thank you, Chairwoman DeGette and Chairman Pallone, for holding this critically important hearing.

I recently partnered with Congressman Cardenas to introduce the Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Act.

There is a rampaging public health emergency that has been with us for far too long. And there have been countless chilling examples of what happens when we fail to act, or only take half measures, anodyne placebos. Each time, more lives…

I can only hope that this last year and this hearing today highlights the need for Congress to address urgently the ad-based business incentives that are pervasive in our economy.

So children's time spent with screens has increased dramatically during the pandemic.

The aggressive concentration of wealth in corporate boardrooms, the unending attacks on unions and their attempts to organize, and the passage of so-called right-to-work laws, which we now know are really the right-to-deprivation laws…

telehealth creates the opportunity to get Black and Brown patients in front of physicians who look like them.

I do invite all my colleagues here today to support the PPA when I reintroduce it this Congress.