Gene Green: “Unfortunately, the President's budget again includes several tax increases aimed at America's natural gas and oil…”

I would like to submit the following letters for the record.

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.

I am extremely disappointed that 2 years after the passage of Cures we still do not have the regulations necessary to implement these provisions.

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