Gene Green: “I do hope that we can allow the new chair the opportunity to tackle some of these governance issues.”

I am interested in how the National Child Traumatic Stress Network is responding to the recent events related to the family separations at the border as a result of the Trump administration's zero tolerance.

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.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding today's hearing on these bipartisan drafts and legislation to improve the delivery cost of healthcare in our country.

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