Kathleen Rice: “Even before the pandemic, communities in my district and across New York were reeling from a spate of anti-Semitic…”

Nobody's suggesting that we are not focused on the mental health of children and adolescents.

The CAROL Act is named in honor of Carol Leavell Barr, the wife of Rep. Andy Barr, who died last year of sudden cardiac arrest.

It's clear we need a federal baseline that re-levels the playing field--and we need one soon.

I would encourage you to speak to your colleagues on your side of the aisle as to why they are preventing us from doing that, and because they are not getting vaccinated.