[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12736]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              THE NUMBERS

  (Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I have tried, through words, 
to demonstrate the severity of our country's mental health crisis. 
Today I will try it again with numbers:
  67,130, the number of Americans who have died from mental health 
issues since we passed the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis 
Act;
  0.006 percent, the percentage of Americans who will suffer from 
addiction and are able to get help. That is six out of every 1,000;
  1,625, the number of Americans who have died by suicide since 
September 1, the first day of Suicide Prevention Month.
  A final question as we close the week. If the Senate adjourns without 
passing H.R. 2646 to be signed into law, what clumsy, beltway babble 
will be used to comfort the thousands of families who will be told, 
``We just didn't have time''? No words, no excuses work to bring 
someone back from the dead. Where there is no help, there is no hope.

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