Political Quotes

“it is a bittersweet moment as I rise today to honor my deputy chief of staff and legislative director, Emily Duhovny Silverberg. Born in the Bronx and raised in New Jersey, Emily joined my office in 2012 as an intern and will leave Capitol Hill this week after 14 years on our team. As my adviser on mental health and addiction policy, she has worked tirelessly to increase Americans' access to behavioral health treatments. She has helped grow the bipartisan Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery Caucus, which I co-chair, to more than 100 members. Among the more than 20 bills Emily has helped pass into law are the Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment, or MAT Act, which dramatically expanded treatment for opioid use disorder, bills to reauthorize the national plan to address Alzheimer's, and to establish the first-ever national plan to end Parkinson's. Emily is here in the gallery today with her family. I thank Emily for her many years of dedicated advocacy and public service. Mr. Speaker, from her start as an intern, her curiosity led her to involve herself in many, many issue areas. She filled her heart with passion. She has made a difference, a difference for those that she may never ever meet. For that, I am eternally grateful.”