When we passed the American Rescue Plan, my legislation was included to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to 1 full year.

Picture a family who loses coverage and is unable to access care, preventative services, behavioral healthcare, necessary medications because of factors completely outside their control.

Extending postpartum--Medicaid postpartum coverage to 1 year is part of our ongoing efforts to break down barriers to accessing care.

Estimates find that as many as 15 million Americans could lose health insurance coverage because of these redeterminations, including 6.8 million who would still be eligible for coverage and incorrectly lose their Medicaid.

Medicaid, as we know, is the single largest payer for mental health services in the U.S.

I am deeply concerned that work requirements--I know someone mentioned it before--in Medicaid will undo our progress.

The Affordable Connectivity Program, or ACP, is established by the bipartisan Infrastructure Law to provide assistance to eligible households to help them afford internet services.

It's critical that Congress not only address the challenges to deploying broadband but also work to make these services more affordable.

Through the bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Congress invested an historic $65 billion to build out our country's broadband infrastructure.

We clearly need to do more to make sure that we are taking care of families and meeting their critical healthcare needs.

Community Health Centers do play an essential role in combating addiction and mental health.

I urge this committee to prioritize the safety and well-being of our communities, including the investments that we have put in improving public transit.

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise today to speak in opposition to H.R. 1, the polluters over people act. I will take my time to point out two glaring flaws with this bill: First, H.R. 1 will make energy more…

Medicaid expansion has been an unqualified success. It has extended health insurance to millions of low-income people.

I think it was probably the most bipartisan vote we took.

We need to continue to work with you because those authorities for flexibility on telehealth which you extended to the end of 2024, you can't have that cliff and all of a sudden have all those flexibilities expire.

That would have a devastating impact on our workforce as well.

The budget also reflects this administration's commitment to ending the mental health and substance use disorder crisis.

As my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have stated, healthcare costs are unaffordable for literally millions of Americans.

I am reintroducing my bipartisan bill, Increasing Transparency in Generic Drug Applications Act of 2022.

I am proud to also co-lead this bill and look forward to discussing the legislation today.

We can and must do better by our constituents.

Site-neutral policies are also a tool to help strengthen the Medicare program overall.

Patients rely on supports like the 340B program, which provides discounts on essential prescription drugs to vulnerable communities.

American Whitewater supports the intent of H.R. 930, Ski Hill Resources for Economic Development (SHRED) Act of 2023.