Gene Green: “Each year in our country at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and…”

I'm happy to once again support my colleague Mr. Engel's bill, to rein in this dangerous practice.

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.