Gene Green: “I want to just commend those in Houston who have done an outstanding job.”

I hope that we can advance this legislation as well.

These numbers are troubling as we are because even more acute when you look at the existing racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities.

Neither these bills nor the Committee's other efforts have gone far enough to address many of the underlying challenges facing this sector.

Maternal mortality in our country has more than doubled between 1987 and 2014, from 7.2 to 18 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.