Issue Position: Improving Healthcare in America

Issue Position

Member of the House Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic, and has supported over 20 pieces of legislation to provide our communities with the tools and resources we need to increase treatment, recovery, education, enforcement and prevention services.

Helped lead the successful bipartisan effort to pass the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA, 953) into law, which included $3.6 billion for substance abuse prevention and treatment, and $8.3 billion in critical funding to combat the nation's opioid epidemic. Voted for $747 million increase in critical funding to address the heroin and opioid abuse epidemic. (H.R. 3354).

Voted for the Championing Healthy Kids Act (H.R, 3922) which renewed important funding for Community Health Centers, essential providers of healthcare for families on Long Island an nationwide. A leader in the bipartisan coalition that renewed the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) so that children and families on Long Island and nationwide can have access to quality care (H.R. 195).

Co-sponsored the Mental Health and Safe Communities Act, H.R. 3722, to provide grant funding for community based mental health programs and related law enforcement programs to better serve our community.

Protecting individuals with disabilities by introducing H.R. 3229, which will prevent a massive increase to access and costs associated with essential specialized power and manual wheelchairs and related services relied on by disabled individuals and their families.

Cosponsored the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6/ H.R. 34), which was signed into law to advance America's robust pursuit of cures and treatments to diseases both well known and rare.

Cosponsored H.R. 789, the Tick-Borne Disease Research Accountability and Transparency Act of 2015, which establishes the Interagency Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Working Group in order to identify best practices for treatment and research. This legislation was included the 21st Century Cures Act, now law.

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