Gene Green

Will the $30 million increase in annual funding set in H.R. 5385, the Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act, help address this challenge?

I want to thank our two panelists, Dr. Gordon Schutze, the Executive Vice Chair of Pediatrics at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, and Dr. Sarah Guralnick, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of…

I encourage my colleagues on the subcommittee to support the reauthorization of this vital program.

While renewables have grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, I think it is important to remember that nuclear generation is the original environmental friendly source of power generation.

This is not, n-o-t, this is not a 'how much' hearing.

It is indeed a privilege to work with you on these projects.

I am honored to have such a degree.

And with my last 30 seconds, I will thank all of you for appearing today, want you to know that you have been exceedingly helpful.

I am grateful that you have not only worked with me in a very coordinated fashion, but also you have embraced this hearing with a great degree of alacrity.

Americans suffering from substance abuse should not become more vulnerable for doing the right thing and seeking treatment.

I appreciate the majority's willingness to hold a hearing on this important issue.

I thank my colleague.

While I understand the purpose of CFIUS is to consider each transaction in light of national security, I am interested in how labor issues are considered.

If we don't fund those programs, like I said, we can pass all the bills we want, it just won't help us with people being treated out in the street.

Will CMS urge the Department of Health and Human Services to request increased block grant funding for opioid abuse and other substance use disorders beyond 2019?

This is the third in a series of hearings on the opioid epidemic and its impact on individuals, families, and communities in our nation.

I support it, but we just couldn't afford it.

we need to do better in responding.

those three projects, $311 million, to spend $311 million on mitigation projects where you can save billions of dollars to me just makes good sense.

I don't see why we would get the State involved.

Hopefully we learn from this.

One hundred and fifteen Americans die from overdosing on opioids every day.

One-hundred fifteen (115) Americans die from overdosing on opioids every day.

We agree that the opioid epidemic is a multisided problem and will require a multipart solution.

It is important that as our committee crafts legislation on the opioid crisis, we give FDA clear authority to consider potential misuse and abuse of a product.