Today we convene the first meeting of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in the 114th Congress.

While this season's vaccine has lower-than-usual effectiveness, CDC is still recommending vaccination for everyone 6 months or older.

I think the members remember in 2009 where, in the spring of 2009, we did decide it was important to go forward with a monovalent vaccine.

I think we are all frustrated, we need to be speeding up this process and the science.

Last week, the wind chill in Buffalo, New York, was 20 below zero. Dead of hypothermia was Ronald Hunter. He was 21 and had untreated schizophrenia. A third of the Nation's 750,000 homeless are so severely mentally ill that they cannot…

Sadly, each day we read sensationalized headlines that boggle the mind, but here is the rest of the story. In New York, headlines read a 30-year-old man has been charged with killing his father who founded a hedge fund because his…

And I think one of the reasons there is stigma with mental illness is you can't get help.

Well, I just want to say, and Mr. Pallone may be surprised to hear me say this, but there are some government programs that are doing pretty well, and I think in this one, CHIP has got some value, I know in Pennsylvania has a strong…

Now, to me, that is an absurd barrier we have.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

I want to see a plan that is simple and direct.

I hope that we can join together to quickly pass the President's budget request.