The first step towards remedying that, a critical step, obviously, is to make sure that our health care system acts with the kind of parity that Patrick Kennedy and others fought so hard for, and is now embedded in the Affordable Care Act.
Sarbanes emphasizes the importance of mental health parity in healthcare.
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I hope that today's hearing is the first step in continuing that legacy of strong bipartisan support for the Chesapeake Bay in this Congress.
The health of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed can only continue to improve through robust Federal, state, and local partnerships.
But these are dramatic changes that can bring us to a new place and, I think, have given many people a sense of hope instead of despair in the face of what we are seeing with a warming planet.
It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ban.
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