Early this month, by sheer coincidence, leaders of five advocacy groups met with the head of a powerful House committee just hours after a student opened fire at an Oregon community college. As pictures of the campus flashed on the TV screen in his office, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R.-Mich.) promised to make mental-health reform a priority this fall.
"He told us, ‘We’re going to work on this ... Democrats and Republicans are going to work together," recalled Paul Gionfriddo, the president of Mental Health America.
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