Patrick J. Kennedy: “Sir, we are never going to be able to achieve a defense of an American facility abroad against that level of lethality…”

What we're trying to do is make the spirit of parity a practical reality.

Our family believes in democracy. We believe in the fact that my uncles, one of whom laid down his life in World War II fighting Hitler over Germany, got shot down.

If this were any other issue we would move heaven and Earth to deal with it. In COVID we responded right away, everybody inoculation, everybody out there. The longest impact of COVID is going to be mental health, and yet, we don't treat it.

We have so underfunded this system for so long, why is it a big surprise that we don't have enough providers in the field?