I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership on the Health Subcommittee and on the Energy and Commerce Committee. I rise today in strong support of the Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act. I thank Representative…

I think the average person would think that this is a very reasonable undertaking on your part.

I have got to believe that if some of them are paying attention to this hearing, they would be scratching their head.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the name of this bill is the Retail Investor Protection Act. If you didn't know better, you would think it was a bill designed to protect the retail investor. But, in fact, it does the…

So actually, one of the most important things that operates on the typical applicant to give them pause... is actually not operating in this instance.

It is pretty clear that the process of eligibility verification going between the various systems is probably one of the most complex that any agency or group of agencies would have to manage.

I commend you for the heroic efforts which your people apparently undertook to explore all of those various weaknesses.

the word 'epidemic' is getting used a lot to describe this.

I have introduced the Co-Prescribing to Reduce Overdoses Act, which would create a demonstration project to encourage co-prescribing opioid overdose reversal drugs like naloxone.

To have this available in a coprescribing way to family members and to patients alike and to make sure that they are trained in the utilization of this is no different than having an automatic defibrillator on a wall in a gym.

we certainly have seen an epidemic of opioid abuse, of deaths.

This would allow for co-prescribing of naloxone when physicians are prescribing opioids in cases where the patient is at high risk for overdose.

I carry Naloxone in my backpack. It is sitting behind me in a ready, injectable pen, because it is something that we can do--it is an anti-death serum.

H.R. ___, the Co-Prescribing to Reduce Overdoses Act of 2015, submitted by Mr. Sarbanes

if we can have Internet access at 30,000 feet in an airplane, we should be able to have Internet access all across rural and tribal America, including New Mexico.

Are you--I mean, are you seeing some real potential savings opportunities there?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you all for your testimony.

I am opposed to this legislation, H.R. 1190, for reasons that I will detail in a moment. At this time, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the minority whip. (Mr. HOYER asked and was given…

And I oppose H.R. 1190. If the Republican appetite for the repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board was based solely on its merits, I might be a little bit more charitable about their bringing this bill to the floor because, as you…

There is no question that we still live in a world where, when we see physical pain, our impulse is to treat it, and unfortunately, when we see mental pain, our collective impulse often is to look in the other direction.

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.

my concern is that states are doing their best in a lot of these instances where they have been given responsibility on the environmental front

I imagine that there is basically a main review process that exists, and then what seems to have happened over the last few years...

I want to congratulate the members who have been working on this piece of legislation for some time now.

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