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.

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.

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

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…

the pandemic has exacerbated the already dire addiction and mental health crises in our country.

Climate change poses an existential crisis to humanity, and the most important thing we can do to prevent not only our country but the world from experiencing the worst effects of climate change, including the dramatic weather patterns…

I think I speak for many people when I say simply, how could this have happened in the United States of America?

We need to repeat the fact the ACA has resulted in more than 20 million Americans gaining health coverage.

These junk plans rescind the coverage from patients if they decide that the consumer should have disclosed certain risk factors.

The ACA required insurance companies to comply with comprehensive consumer protections.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, again, to the Chair for having this important hearing.