Ron Wyden

We hope this Committee will support a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Senator Stabenow.

This is a basic matter of health-care equity, and there's a long way to go.

We have not made any headway with parity for mental health and physical health. We have a long way to go.

This could help Jeff Wyden, a schizophrenic.

Prior to the pandemic, one in five Americans was living with mental illness.

More than 87,000 of our neighbors, friends, and family members died of a drug overdose over the past year.

We urge both its enactment and the adoption of mobile crisis intervention services by Medicaid programs nationwide.

The proportion of Americans reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression has nearly quadrupled.

Senator Stabenow has been a champion of mental health-care treatment.

Every American must have mental health care when they need it.

I believe the Congress ought to look at ways to build on the success that my colleague has led.

I believe that is going to be a game changer, particularly for seniors who live in rural areas.

The shameful reality is, the United States does not come close to meeting that bar today.

Insurance companies must not be allowed to cut corners when it comes to mental health coverage.

There simply are not enough providers, whether psychiatrists or therapists or staff in inpatient facilities.

The system still reflects the dangerous, outdated stigma against recognizing and treating mental illness.

This is a question of equity, and we have a long way to go.

For someone with a mental illness, it can often be nearly impossible to find a provider who can meet your needs.

There must be a full investigation of abuses under former Attorneys General Sessions and Barr and any one at the Justice Department who was complicit in these abuses of power cannot be trusted to continue serving in government.

Hope springs eternal. Something may happen, you know, Monday or Tuesday where people say, let`s see if we can find some common ground.

I mean, look, I always try to be bipartisan. Sometimes I get flak for being too bipartisan, but I think we have given an enormous amount of time to this bipartisan effort.

To take a complete pass on climate change, in other words, include nothing on climate change is a complete non-starter.

The proposition that the country`s biggest corporations who got an enormous tax cut from Donald Trump in 2017 wouldn`t pay a single penny to use the roads and bridges and ports they depend on, that is just a non-starter.

It`s time to abandon hopeless negotiations with Senate Republicans and pass an infrastructure bill through reconciliation with Democratic votes only.

Billionaires are going to have to pay their fair share every single year.