Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Mrs. Walorski. I really appreciate your comments. I think Dr. Murphy brought up a good point when he was speaking. We just recently in this House passed the 21st Century Cures Act, H.R. 6. That has been endorsed by a wide variety of professional and medical organizations, such as the American Association for Cancer Research and The Cure Alliance. We passed this bill by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 344-77. This is a piece of legislation that is going to change the way we do research at the NIH, that is going to change health care for all Americans. There is no reason that we shouldn't be able to pass a mental health care bill similar to that with a wide bipartisan effort. Today Ms. Sinema and I are leading a bipartisan group of Members of Congress to make mental health care an issue on which to move forward, and it has really been a great way to get this started. I yield to Ms. Sinema if she would like to add a few more thoughts in that regard.”