Gene Green: “My district in Houston is the largest petrochemical complex in the country, in the center of the world, our Nation's…”

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

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

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.