Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) has announced an upcoming hearing focused on the health of American children. The session, titled “Better Meals, Fewer Pills: Making Our Children Healthy Again,” will address how unhealthy diets and the overprescription of medications are affecting children in the United States.
The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. EST in Room 2247 of the Rayburn House Office Building. It will feature testimony from Dr. Dorothy Fink, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health and Head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps at the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as Dr. Eve Stoody, Director of Nutrition Guidance and Analysis Division at the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion within the Department of Agriculture.
“Children across the country are facing a severe health crisis and are experiencing an increased likelihood of developing devastating, lifelong diseases and facing a diminishing quality of life. Ultra-processed foods, lack of exercise, and overexposure to prescription medications and other interventions are making our children less healthy than ever. More effort must be made to reverse Americans’ chronic diseases and improve diets nationwide. I look forward to hearing from witnesses on how Congress can work to improve children’s health and advance President Trump’s important initiative to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’” Grothman stated.
The event is open to the public and will also be livestreamed.
James Comer is currently serving in the U.S. Congress representing Kentucky’s 1st district after replacing Ed Whitfield in 2016. He has held this position since then following previous service in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 2001 to 2012. Comer was born in Carthage, Tennessee in 1972, lives in Tompkinsville, and graduated from Western Kentucky University with a BS degree in 1993.
