Patrick Kennedy

I thank Mr. Stark for his leadership on this issue. Mr. Chairman, we are talking today about the potential to revolutionize our health care system by means of technology that we are using in almost every other industry currently in our…

Companies that are in the business of storing patient health information online are not covered under HIPAA. Are not covered under HIPAA.

in 1960 my uncle, President Kennedy, in one of his remarks in the inaugural address said, ultimately, our truest test here on Earth, we need to make sure we do God's will, because God's work is ultimately our own. I find it so interesting…

if this issue were not so serious it would be a joke. The Republican majority today is talking about a Pledge of Allegiance where they are saying that we should include the words ``under God'' as they have been historically in our country…

just one last point. We have no medical privacy in this country now. The health care and privacy act is nonexistent. It has no teeth in it. Your medical records can be found out from anybody anywhere. They pass through a million different…

I know the gentleman will. I thank him for all of his work in this area, and I thank him for his 6 years of service as chairman on the committee.

the last two days the House has debated for over 10 hours a politically motivated resolution on Iraq. Not one word in this resolution will do anything to bring us one step closer to success in Iraq, or one day closer to bringing our troops…

I yield 5 minutes to myself. Mr. Chairman, Marley Prunty-Lara is here today in the gallery. She is an articulate young woman living with bipolar disorder, and she is a suicide attempt survivor. She is in town because she was here to…

I demand a recorded vote to demonstrate this House's support for mental health services in this country. The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Rhode…

on rollcall No. 61, I was in a meeting with the Minister of Northern Ireland and missed the 2 minute vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''

today I rise to acknowledge Brain Awareness Week, which reminds us that neuroscience research is critical to the health of U.S. global competitiveness and much of this research is done by the National Institutes of Health. As Members of…

as of today, a bipartisan majority of the House has cosponsored the Paul Wellstone Mental Health Equity Treatment Act. This marks the fifth year in a row that the majority of our colleagues have supported ending this arbitrary insurance…

we have talked a lot about making sure that we not overlook those who have been affected by this terrible tragedy. Today, Mr. Speaker, I rise to support this bill, but also just to say we should make sure that we do not overlook those…

I rise to ask why we are not doing more to ensure fewer mistakes are made in the first place. Mr. Speaker, nobody disputes that malpractice premiums are heavily impacting many physicians. I think very few of us would dispute that there are…

just to answer the lady about walking the walk and talking the talk, this administration and this Congress just cut child labor enforcement around the world by 87 percent in our dollars that we contribute to the international labor…

on the evening of July 12, I missed one rollcall vote. It was my intention to vote ``no'' on rollcall 366 for H. Res. 351, Rule providing for consideration of H.R. 739, H.R. 740, H.R. 741, and H.R. 742. ____________________

in politics there are show horses and there are work horses. This process, instead of seeking a solution, only sought headlines. We had an opportunity to make real progress and address the concerns of these tribes. Instead of addressing…

the danger in our society now is basing policy on old stereotypes that somehow mental health and mental science is not real science. I have here a board that shows that there is a different metabolizing in people's brains for those who…

in closing, when the sarin gas attack happened in Japan, 90 percent of the people who went to the hospital had no infection or exposure to the sarin gas whatsoever. People died at the hospital because the medical teams were not able to…

on behalf of the citizens of Pascoag, Rhode Island, who have lived with contaminated water from MBTE, I rise in support of the Capps amendment. I would like to thank my good friend Congresswoman Capps for fighting to bring this debate to…

It is true that, this week, we are celebrating the Mental Health Awareness Month, and it is appropriate as we celebrate it, to reflect on what we are doing as a Nation to address mental illness in this country. We have 271 cosponsors of…

this week is Mental Health Awareness Week and still the mental health parity legislation supported by 249 representatives, 70 Senators and 369 national organizations is bottled up. The leadership of this House, which refuses to bring up…

I rise today as the lead Democratic cosponsor of the ASTHMA Act of 2003, and I want to acknowledge my good friend and partner, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns), for his excellent leadership on this matter. I think he illustrated…

I never could have thought I would see it, a House that is run by a conservative majority that is bent on imposing its will on the minority. We have seen it many times, but, Mr. Speaker, it is so interesting to see that, this morning, we…