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Providing for Consideration of H.R. 1424, Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007

Floor Speech

Date: March 5, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman from Florida for yielding. I rise in strong support of this rule and the underlying bill. Like all of my colleagues, I want to commend Representatives Kennedy and Ramstad for their unrelenting advocacy for mental health. As a matter of fact, we have watched them travel all across the country, holding hearing after hearing, engaging people, trying to help them understand that mental illness, that mental health is just as important as any other aspect.

I have heard us debate cost. All of us know that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We know that education, early diagnosis and prevention can save us billions of dollars in mental health. And so I would urge passage of this rule and passage of the underlying bill.

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