"I worked hard with Senator Smith to authorize the original Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act which provides information and training for suicide prevention."
"These policies were the result of multiyear, multimember bipartisan congressional effort, and they are based largely off the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act."
"We prioritized access to evidence-based programs and best practices to make them available to providers across the Nation."
"It is really important that we do oversight on how 21st Century Cures and the wonderful bipartisan changes incorporated therein are now being implemented."
"We want to fix the problem, but we don't want to give up all the privacy rights and balancing the two are tough."
"This legislative effort represents the most significant reforms to the mental health system in more than a decade."
"The Subcommittee on Health will now come to order."
"We granted States additional flexibility in administering mental health block grants to address the specific needs of their patient population."
"It is also important, as an authorizing committee, that, once we pass legislation, we come back and review is it working?"
"Cures also made important progress in boosting resources for suicide prevention."
"Access to mental health and substance use disorder care, especially in the midst of an opioid epidemic, is vital to the overall health of our nation."