This legislative effort represents the most significant reforms to the mental health system in more than a decade.

We want to fix the problem, but we don't want to give up all the privacy rights and balancing the two are tough.

It is really important that we do oversight on how 21st Century Cures and the wonderful bipartisan changes incorporated therein are now being implemented.

Cures also made important progress in boosting resources for suicide prevention.

I worked hard with Senator Smith to authorize the original Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act which provides information and training for suicide prevention.

It is also important, as an authorizing committee, that, once we pass legislation, we come back and review is it working?

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.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in support of this critical bill to reauthorize the Animal Drug User Fee Act and the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act for an additional 5 years. Among other things, these…

Mr. Green and I have been working on transparency for the past several years.

If we're going to successfully reduce healthcare costs, we need to empower patients and engage them in the decision-making process.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, Mr. Chairman, it is my fondest wish that one day I will come into a hearing in the Energy and Commerce Committee and there will be five doctors at the witness table, and they are going to expound for us…

Patients should be able to learn about how much something is going to cost them before they get it.