As Congress works to help the country transition to net zero carbon emissions, we must ensure that low-income Americans and communities of color will benefit from this revolution in our energy sources.

Generations of inequalities and injustices have placed a disproportionately high energy burden on our low-income, indigenous, and Black and brown communities.

We need to work together to ensure that environmental justice communities have a seat at the table as we transition to clean energy.

Transitioning to clean energy is not only necessary to protect human health and the environment, but it is also an enormous opportunity to create a more equitable economy.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, as a mother and aunt--and now a great aunt--to a dozen little ones, I know there is nothing more important than keeping our children and loved ones safe. From a young age, we tell our…

So my legislation with Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, known as the STOP Fentanyl Act, is comprehensive in its public health approach to addressing fentanyl.

We must do more to address the new realities of this epidemic defined by illicit synthetic opioids as well as ensure that our policies don't reinforce the mistakes of our past that disproportionately have impacted communities of color.

This can be a real game changer, and I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss this legislation today.

We would love to meet with you. I will set that up. We have game-changer legislation that would eliminate the exclusion of Medicaid during incarceration.

This is the reason that 7 years ago I founded the bipartisan Congressional Opioid Task Force and why this Congress we have now expanded it to the Addiction and Mental Health Task Force, to include this complex crisis that needs…

I have introduced, with my good friend and colleague Congresswoman Blunt Rochester, the STOP Fentanyl Act to provide a comprehensive, balanced public health approach.

This is deeply personal. And New Hampshire has consistently had one of the highest rates of overdose deaths in the country.