Kathleen Rice: “I have seen the havoc that is wreaked in communities and among broken families. And it is just a terrible, preventable…”

Let me just interrupt you for 1 second.

This tragedy hit home for one of our former colleagues, former Congressman Rick Nolan, who lost his daughter Katherine to lung cancer even though she did not smoke.

I think what we are--the subject matter of today's hearing brings me to that--again to that issue of how we get people around safely and efficiently.

We all agree that we have to put more money into this program across the board.