Patrick Kennedy: “You know the facts about this. You have guns in the home that are going to be used against your own family members. You…”

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…

once again I would just say, as my good friend has just said, the reason that doctors are not trained in identifying mental illness is that we still are living in a country where mental illness is not regarded as part of the body. In other…

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…

I too want to join any colleagues in saying how important a bill like this is, and I only hope this Congress recognizes how critical the kind of aid that is provided through legislation like this is in a time where we are trying to combat…