Patrick J. Kennedy: “Private security contractors are also critical to our capability to carry out U.S. foreign policy under dangerous and…”

We ought to be encouraging people in this country to seek mental health. That should not be a disqualifying factor.

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.

This is why it is time to pass the Telemental Health Expansion Act which I introduced, as I mentioned, with Congresswoman Doris Matsui.

We wouldn't expect any less if there were any other illness. And yet we settled for less than 20 percent of Americans getting any of that today in this country.