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Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of this Special Order.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Messmer). Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Virginia?
There was no objection.
Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to anchor this Special Order hour on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus in honor of Black Maternal Health Week.
Maternal Health Week last week to address the high rates of preventable maternal mortality among Black women who are more than three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women.
and policy change. This year's theme, Rooted in Justice & Joy, highlights the need for both systemic change to address racial disparities and the celebration of Black motherhood and strength.
Caucus to discuss the ongoing crisis facing our Nation's Black mothers and to explore solutions to protecting our communities' Black women.
of Black maternal health in our Nation. In a nutshell, we are in crisis, and the Black maternal health crisis is not just statistics.
when my daughter and I both nearly died when my placenta ruptured 9 weeks before my due date. I needed an emergency C-section. I had placenta previa, and because I had health insurance and access to pre- and postnatal care, I was one of the lucky ones, but too many Black women in America aren't so lucky. Compared to other high income countries, the U.S. still has the highest rate of maternal deaths.
national maternal mortality rate actually declined, but Black women were still more than three times as likely as White women to experience a pregnancy-related death and 87 percent of these deaths were preventable.
women and families against this loss. The maternal health crisis connects healthcare with insurance policy, reproductive freedom, environmental policy, and so much more. These issues don't exist in a vacuum, and many of them are rooted in decades, I would say, centuries of inequity.
rate and save lives, but recent rollbacks at the Federal level risk deepening this maternal health crisis. Medicaid cuts and the expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits over the Affordable Care Act have driven up the cost of maternal care for millions, making this vital care inaccessible for those unable to pay for it out of pocket.
The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade caused one in three women of childbearing years to live in States with abortion bans or extreme restrictions, and in those States, States with bans, women are two times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes.
Again, it is not just statistics. We have seen tragic stories of women like Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, who died suffering miscarriages awaiting simple procedures that could have saved their life, but the hospitals weren't sure if they fit within the exceptions to the ban.
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it harder to secure justice for Black families and address the maternal health crisis in Black communities with President Trump's executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, limiting the Federal Government's ability to enforce hospital accountability for treatment of Black mothers weeks after the Biden administration reached a historic settlement agreement to uphold these guidelines and provide training for hospital staff to address bias.
left agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services without the resources or staff needed to conduct research and implement policies that save lives. Thousands of datasets that have helped to identify the maternal mortality factors and track how we are doing with policies to address them can no longer be accessed.
for 2027 calls for over $800 million in cuts to maternal and child health programs at HHS.
including the Healthy Start program, which serves mothers and infants in high-risk communities; the maternal mortality review committees; the Perinatal Quality Collaboratives; and other programs that track maternal mortality and share solutions for reducing it. This is not acceptable, and the Congressional Black Caucus will do everything within our power to oppose this proposed budget.
Mr. Speaker, in the face of these setbacks at the Federal level, we will continue to push for change. As a member of not only the Congressional Black Caucus but the Black Maternal Health Caucus, and especially as a mom who faced that crisis personally, I am fighting back as we continue to push forward because we cannot afford to wait. We certainly can't afford to sit back and do nothing.
that aims to address the root causes of maternal health challenges, provide support to mothers, and study how we can build a better system for every American family in need of care.
continue to work toward tangible change to eradicate this Black maternal health crisis. I am proud to stand and work alongside Members, like the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Representative Yvette Clarke.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Clarke).
Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Virginia, my esteemed colleague Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan,
Black women have been disadvantaged with respect to Black maternal health and for anchoring this Congressional Black Caucus Special Order hour.
Good evening. I am Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and proudly representing New York's Ninth Congressional District in Brooklyn, New York.
Black maternal health in America is not just a public health issue. It is a moral crisis.
highest rates of maternal mortality. This crisis falls hardest on Black women. We know the facts. In the United States, Black women are still three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women. The vast majority of complications are preventable with timely, high-quality care.
Too many families are left grieving. Too many warnings have gone unheard. Behind every statistic is a name, a story, and a family forever changed. These stories demand more than sympathy. They demand action.
healthcare, structural racism, and a system that too often fails Black women at every stage of pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum recovery.
These deaths are preventable. Yet, instead of preventing them and improving maternal health, Republicans are stripping coverage that mothers rely on, worsening an already deadly crisis. Efforts to dismantle healthcare, undermine reproductive health services, and strip away critical protections will continue to disproportionately harm Black women around our Nation.
continuing the pattern of neglect and disregard for our health and our lives. We must continue to invest in community-based care; diversify the maternal health workforce; address implicit bias in our healthcare system; and ensure that every woman, no matter her ZIP Code, has access to quality, affordable care.
Black maternal health is about more than healthcare. It is about justice. It is about dignity. It is about whether this country is willing to value Black women the way that we deserve to be valued.
Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. Moore).
Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for anchoring this on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus, and I thank her so much for her passionate words and her lived experience. Unfortunately, her story is not a rare story. It is all too common, especially for women of color.
three great-grandbabies, this is really personal to me. I have a real stake in this fight, which is one of the reasons why I really want to implore my colleagues to pass the momnibus.
Mr. Speaker, this crisis demands immediate action. Black women, as you have heard, are three times more likely to die from pregnancy- related causes than White women. Over 80 percent of these deaths are preventable.
These are not just data. There is stuff behind there. This is not done in a vacuum. This is because of the systemic failure of our healthcare system and its structural failures.
said 80 percent. The gentlewoman said that 87 percent of these deaths are preventable in the wealthiest country in the world.
Mr. Speaker, this is one of the reasons, when I look at our momnibus and think of all the bills that are in the bill, I think of women being served at every single phase of their pregnancy. You could look at one of the initiatives that I have, expanding the perinatal workforce, really wanting to provide doulas and people to help guide vulnerable women with vulnerable pregnancies through their pregnancies.
In our momnibus, we are dealing with things like Mrs. Lucy McBath's Extending WIC for New Moms Act, which would provide WIC support for postpartum and breastfeeding mothers.
to provide, with no cost-sharing, for women's mental health not only during the 9 months of pregnancy but for 1 year postpartum. We are finding that so many of these deaths are occurring because of poor mental health among Black women without the appropriate interventions and healthcare.
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Obviously, Mr. Speaker, we can't cut Medicaid at the tune of $1.2 trillion and propose $1.4 billion cuts in WIC for fruits and vegetables because we know that this is science-backed data that tells us you just really can't starve a woman during pregnancy and expect good health outcomes.
So what is missing? What is missing, Mr. Speaker and Madam Convener of us tonight, is that we just don't have the sense of urgency about taking care of our children.
come up with some commonsense and science- and evidence-based legislation, like the momnibus, that would truly make America healthier.
We have a roadmap. The Congressional Black Caucus and the Black Maternal Health Caucus, we have a roadmap for change. The time for action, Mr. Speaker, is yesterday, and we must pass the momnibus. Black mamas can't wait. We know what the solutions are, and we just have to get to work.
Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, I now yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Underwood).
Ms. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, last week, we marked the 10th Annual Black Maternal Health Week, a week of action, engagement, and advocacy with the goal of ending our Nation's maternal health crisis and the disparities that disproportionately impact Black women.
crisis. While it affects moms from every community, of every demographic, we know that there are significant inequities across racial and ethnic lines.
times the rate of their White counterparts, a disparity that exists across income brackets and education levels.
ago, I cofounded the Black Maternal Health Caucus with my sister and colleague, Congresswoman Alma Adams.
bipartisan caucuses on Capitol Hill. Our flagship legislation, which I am proud to lead along with Congresswoman Adams, is the momnibus, a comprehensive package of 14 evidence-based bills designed to address every clinical and nonclinical factor leading to preventable maternal mortality, morbidity, and disparities in the United States.
crisis and end the disproportionate risks faced by Black women. This is not a Band-Aid. This is the solution, and Congress must pass it now.
health and moving the priorities in the momnibus forward. We have gotten hundreds of millions of dollars signed into law to fund lifesaving research on maternal health and to support the organizations nationwide who are putting that knowledge to use on the front lines of the crisis.
Moms Who Served Act, which helps our veterans receive the quality maternal care that they deserve. Yes, these are meaningful steps forward, but our work is not done.
together and deliver a comprehensive solution because our moms deserve better:
Moms like Dr. Janell Green Smith, a nurse-midwife, a DNP, a professor, and maternal health advocate who we tragically lost in January to childbirth complications days after delivering her daughter, Eden. She deserved better.
the road minutes after being turned away from a hospital while in active labor in December. She deserved better.
crying out and doubled over in pain in a hospital waiting room. She deserved better.
access to the respectful and competent care they deserve, we must pass the whole momnibus: the comprehensive solution to address maternal mortality in America. This is a fight that we cannot lose.
background has a right to a safe pregnancy and postpartum period. Bringing new life into the world should be a time of celebration, not fear, not grief.
Joy, reflects the incredible resilience of the moms, families, and advocates who are working every day to make that vision a reality for women across the country.
Health Week through this Special Order hour, I am so pleased that we have the opportunity as a Congress to celebrate the progress we have made together. However, we also must rededicate ourselves to doing the work.
Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, I now yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs. Sykes).
Mrs. SYKES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Black Maternal Health Week.
this Chamber: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause in this country than White women. That is not a small disparity. It is a systemic failure.
story. While maternal mortality has risen for all women over time, the rate for Black mothers has more than doubled from 29.3 to 59.7 deaths per 1,000 live births.
These are not just numbers on a page. These are mothers who should be here today. These are families that should not be grieving. These are children growing up without the care, stability, and the love of the person who brought them into this world.
Mr. Speaker, as I have said before, enough is enough. Black mothers deserve to feel safe and supported throughout their pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum period. Every mother deserves high-quality, affordable healthcare. Addressing maternal mortality is not a partisan issue. It is a human issue.
at the State level. As the minority leader of the Ohio House, I helped cofound the first Ohio Black Maternal Health Caucus. It was the first of its kind in the country, because we could not ignore this crisis unfolding in our communities.
Congressional Black Maternal Health Caucus and as chair of the Reproductive Justice Task Force.
However, leadership is not just about titles and task forces. It is about action. That is why I am an original sponsor of the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act—legislation that will save lives by investing in community care, strengthening the workforce, improving data, and addressing the root causes of maternal mortality.
access to emergency and labor care under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, better known as EMTALA, ensuring that no woman is turned away during childbirth and labor.
through the Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act, because misleading women during some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives has no place in a healthcare system built on trust and safety.
these healthcare outcomes. In Ohio, Black mothers are more likely to rely on Medicaid to cover their births. That means decisions, including the $1 trillion cut to the Medicaid program that Republicans in this Chamber made as part of the one big, ugly bill, are not abstract budget choices. These are risks imposed upon real people.
whether they can receive prenatal care, whether complications will be caught in time, and whether or not they live or die.
maternity care deserts, leaving tens of thousands of women without reasonable access to obstetric services. Imagine being told you are bringing a life into this world and then discovering that the nearest hospital that can safely deliver your baby is hours away. That is a reality that far too many families face today.
Mr. Speaker, we cannot accept this as normal.
office, because if it were so, we would have figured this out and solved this crisis decades ago. It is what happens outside of the hospital: the social determinants of health, the things that are going on in our communities, education, clean air, clean water, and access to upward mobility.
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and just don't like to talk about it, is that the leading cause of death for pregnant women is violence.
So, Mr. Speaker, we can and must do more to protect pregnant women, not just inside the hospital, not just outside the hospital, but also within the intimate relationships that oftentimes women find themselves in creating deadly circumstances in which mothers and babies cannot live.
Mr. Speaker, we stand on this floor often. We fight about a lot, but one thing should be very easy: protecting women, protecting babies, encouraging life and prosperity should not be something that is challenging or hard for us all to do together.
Maternal Health Week, and ensure that all of our colleagues across the aisle are supporting the Momnibus Act.
Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, the threat to our hospital OB/GYNs is not theoretical. Centra Southside in Farmville, Virginia, announced the closure of its labor and delivery unit, and it ended OB/GYN services at their Centra Southside Community Hospital on December 19, 2025, citing a combination of significant financial and operational challenges, including the recently enacted reductions in healthcare funding and the Medicaid cuts.
Mrs. McIVER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Virginia for yielding.
We know the statistics far too well. In the United States, Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women, and in New Jersey, Black women are seven times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women.
experiences where their pain was not taken seriously or their care was delayed.
been cast to the side in our healthcare system. Today, they are being flat-out ignored.
“Black” from funding applications. The question that my colleague Representative Summer Lee asked the Health and Human Services Secretary last week demands an answer: How can we solve the Black maternal mortality crisis, if we can't say the word “Black”?
The silence is loud and intentional.
when the concerns of Black women are written off, our voices are erased.
Behind every number is a family impacted forever. We don't want to be valued with words without that rhetoric being followed up with action.
the foundations of our freedom and history. And there are moments when the weight of these disparities feels overwhelming, when the statistics feel relentless, and the stories feel too familiar.
dignity in healthcare they were never meant to receive and who insisted that their lives were worth protecting even when the system said otherwise.
to this crisis until our Nation starts to treat it like one. We will continue to demand action to close the health gap for Black mothers, expand access to prenatal and postpartum care, and confront the bias that exists in our hospitals today.
The time for intervention is now. We refuse to wait until another tragedy is added to the list.
Mr. MENEFEE. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from the Commonwealth of Virginia for yielding.
Mr. Speaker, I speak today because Congress must do all it can to end the disparities in Black maternal health outcomes in this country.
pregnant. She was ready. She and her husband had just bought a four- bedroom house. The nursery was set. The baby shower was planned. They had clothes, the onesies, and the books, until she went to the hospital with a headache one day and had some dizziness.
Doctors found her blood pressure was dangerously high. She had preeclampsia. They transferred her to a larger hospital, one of the most celebrated medical institutions in the entire country.
Over the next 3 days, her pain became unbearable. Her vision started to fail. Her blood pressure climbed to an untenable level. She kept pressing the call light in her room and kept pressing it, but nobody came. She lost her son in that experience—delivered stillborn. She woke up from surgery blind in one eye. Doctors later told her they wished that they had acted sooner.
That Houston woman's story is not a tragedy. It is a pattern.
three times the rate of White women. The CDC tells us that more than 80 percent of those deaths are preventable—not inevitable, but preventable.
In Texas it is even worse. In my district, it is the worst in the Nation. Harris County leads this Nation right now in Black maternal deaths.
Harris County was 83.4 per 100,000 live births, the highest in the Nation.
And it is only getting worse.
between 2019 and 2024, outpacing the Texas statewide increase every single year.
So what do we do about this?
We as a body must act. We pass legislation like the Momnibus Act, which invests in the full spectrum of solutions that this crisis demands.
We address the social determinants of health: stable housing, nutritious food, mental health care. You cannot have a healthy pregnancy in an unstable life.
access to a midwife, a doula, a community health worker who looks like them, who understands their culture, and we extend postpartum coverage through Medicaid and WIC because a mother's health does not stop mattering the moment she leaves the delivery room.
out with an ailment or if they will walk out at all. My wife wondered that when she was giving birth to our youngest son and her blood pressure dropped to a dangerous level. I looked her in the eye and saw not just tears flowing but fear and the question of whether she would leave that hospital alive at all.
This body has the power to change that.
hour today, and I wanted to be here to make sure that they knew that the Black men in this body have their back.
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to end these disparities in maternal health outcomes, and I intend to make sure that we do so.
Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, when I began, I said that the Black maternal health crisis was not just about statistics. That is because behind every statistic is a mom who didn't make it to raise her child.
I want to tell one such story now of Kira Johnson. Kira was already a mom, a mom to Langston and Charles Jr., and wife to Charles. She was a Ph.D. student at Pepperdine. On April 12, 2016, she was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Hospital at about 12:30 p.m. for a routine C-section delivery. At 2:33 she gave birth to her son Langston. At 3 p.m. Kira was out of the operating room and was taken to a post-anesthesia care unit. Shortly before 5 p.m., blood-tinged urine was seen in Kira's Foley catheter. By 5:24 p.m. Kira's Foley catheter was draining bright, red blood.
At 11:42 p.m., two physicians were at Kira's bedside and one performed an ultrasound that found an expanding hematoma and now free fluid. They recommended taking Kira to surgery to identify the source of the bleeding, but her physician, Dr. Naim, who was also at the bedside at this time, wished to continue expectant management at this time.
By 12:30 a.m., as Kira's condition began to rapidly decline, her husband, Charles, pleaded for help. Kira was finally taken to surgery about 12:30 a.m. on April 13, 2016, 10 hours from the time when the family initially realized that something was wrong.
At 2:22 a.m., during surgery, Kira was found to have three liters of blood in her abdomen and did not survive the blood loss. She was pronounced dead at 2:22 a.m. on April 13, 2026. The autopsy stated that the cause of death was due to hemorrhagic shock due to acute hemoperitoneum, or massive internal bleeding, post C-section.
settlement agreement with the Biden administration's HHS Office for Civil Rights. It entered into a resolution agreement on January 6, 2025, to take significant steps toward ensuring that no other family has to go through what Kira's did.
hospital's obstetric hemorrhage management policy, create a pain management protocol for assessing and managing acute pain for birthing patients, update guidelines for trial of labor after C-section delivery and continue to track the vaginal birth after C-section success rate, administer an online bias reporting tool to document incidents of bias or suspected bias experienced by patients and the public, require staff to
diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. Because the settlement agreement promotes diversity and equity efforts and is grounded in healthcare nondiscrimination protections, it is under risk.
administration last year is making the maternal health crisis, particularly for Black women, worse.
on addressing Black maternal health as a member of the Joint Commission on Healthcare. Through our maternal mortality review teams, we were able to track and identify the differences between rates of death of White women, Black women, and indigenous women, and we found the reasons were different.
Monitoring System, or PRAMS, which is an entire CDC team that monitors risks associated with pregnancy, we were able to determine that, at least in Virginia, Black women were more likely to die due to cardiovascular issues, an underlying health issue, before they got pregnant; whereas, White women were more likely to die from suicide or drug overdose related to mental health issues.
were able to focus on policies that addressed the underlying root causes to eliminate Black maternal deaths for both Black and White women.
PRAMS and the datasets we were using to identify the root causes and the differences is now gone. The staff that oversaw the HHS Health Resources & Services Administration, which is a national maternal mental health hotline that can help field calls from new moms seeking mental health support was cut. DOGE canceled funding for several Black maternal health projects. The Trump administration defunded research at Morehouse School of Medicine on how to improve the health of Black pregnant and postpartum women, it cut research on how stress influences racial and ethnic differences in maternal health outcomes for women with hypertensive disorders, and it cut studies on uterine fibroids which disproportionately impact Black women.
It wasn't just HHS and CDC that removed datasets. There was data from the Census Bureau and the EPA as well as the CDC that were detailing racial and ethnic data broken out by other factors that helped show some of the risk factors that led to differences in these underlying health outcomes and maternal health outcomes.
change over time, put policies in place to address the causes, and then track to see if those policies are working?
giving birth to my daughter, that we are not able to address this and there doesn't seem to be an urgency, as Congresswoman Moore said, to address these underlying causes.
The Medicaid cuts are going to make it worse. Medicaid finances about 65 percent of births from Black mothers, and these cuts are only going to increase the disparity in maternal mortality rates and lead to more deaths as millions of Americans lose their health insurance.
country for prenatal visits, ultrasounds, screenings for conditions such as preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and postpartum depression. It also helps them get annual physicals that will identify cardiovascular issues.
address bias in medicine. We have seen medical schools that taught students for decades that Black people can tolerate more pain, which led to tragic outcomes. We have heard story after story after story of women in the hospital who said, after giving birth, that something is wrong. They were ignored, and something was wrong.
health where a woman said that she had her first heart attack after she became a mother. After giving birth, she went home, and she felt odd. The more she thought about it, she said: I think I am having a heart attack.
She went to the emergency room, and the doctor said: No, you are not having a heart attack. You don't meet the risk factors. You are only 36 years old. You have never had a history of heart disease. Come back later. You are not having a heart attack.
She went home. She was having a heart attack. Fortunately, she was able to get back to the hospital before she died.
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That is just one example. We have heard many, whether you are Serena Williams or Kira Johnson, where you know something's wrong, yet the hospital and the doctors don't listen. That happens more and more to Black women. We have to do something about it.
forward, under Representative Underwood and Representative Adams' leadership, the momnibus act.
What is that? It is a comprehensive package of 14 individual bills that will make critical investments in the social determinants of health that influence maternal health outcomes, like housing, transportation, nutrition, and pollution. It will extend WIC eligibility in the postpartum and breastfeeding periods. It will provide funding to community-based organizations working to improve maternal health outcomes and promote equity. It will increase funding for programs to improve maternal healthcare for veterans; to grow and diversify the prenatal workforce to ensure that every mom in America receives maternal healthcare and support from people they trust; to improve data collection processes and quality measures to better understand the causes of the maternal health crisis in the United States and to form solutions to address it; to support moms with maternal mental health conditions and substance abuse disorders; to improve maternal healthcare and support for incarcerated moms; to invest in digital tools to improve maternal health outcomes in underserved areas, particularly rural areas; to promote innovative payment models to incentivize high-quality maternal health and nonclinical support during and after pregnancy; to invest in Federal programs to address maternal and infant health risk during public health emergencies; to invest in community-based initiatives to reduce levels and exposure to climate change-related risks for moms and babies; to promote maternal vaccinations to protect the health of moms and babies; and to make critical investments in research to reduce preventable causes of maternal deaths and improve healthcare for women, before, during, and after pregnancy.
Black Maternal Health Month will be the year we make progress. We have already regressed and can't afford to wait a moment longer.
reproductive freedom. When a woman is told, as I was, that if you get pregnant again, you could die, the decision from that point on—well, really, the decision at any point of when, whether, and how to get pregnant should be with her and her partner and whom she wants to have part of the decision, and not her government.
hers and her doctor's. When you reach a certain age, some contraception is more risky, yet the forms that are best for you, some politicians— not doctors, politicians—don't think you should have access to them.
we have seen, particularly in Texas and Georgia, that has led to tragedies,
bleeding out, and the hospital has to wonder whether they are close enough so that they can provide the care that they need, or do they have to wait until they are septic. Well, once they are septic, it is probably too late.
Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Unfortunately, our warnings have come true.
decisions about healthcare, and not physicians and patients. It can have tragic results.
Mr. Speaker, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Black Maternal Health Caucus will continue to fight for Black moms everywhere. We will continue to fight so that we don't need Black Maternal Health Week anymore. We will continue to fight, Rooted in Justice & Joy, so that no other mother has to worry, when they get the best news, that it is going to end tragically. We are here to make sure that it doesn't.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.