WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), today delivered an opening statement at a public forum exposing the ways in which the Trump Administration has made children and families more vulnerable to illness and disease. The forum, convened by Blumenthal and U.S. Representative Robert Garcia (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called attention to the Trump Administration's reckless cuts to research, destruction of public health agencies, attempts to take away life-saving vaccines, and actions to reward polluters at the expense of th...