Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, last week the House advanced dozens of bills to help save lives and stem the tide of the opioid crisis that has struck at the health of our people wherever they live. We…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 5723, the Expanding Oversight of Opioid Prescribing and Payment Act of 2018, sponsored by my colleague, Representative Tenney, along with…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 5676, currently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, in closing, in a nutshell, I think the gentlewoman from California put it well. What she was arguing was this bill strikes a balance, which it does. It is designed to focus…

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 5773, currently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I stand in strong support of H.R. 5773, a bipartisan bill centered on curbing opioid overuse by increasing program integrity efforts and increasing resources for…

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly).

Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, I have spent a lot of time, as I know we all have, listening to my own constituency, the west and northwest suburbs of Chicago. I have listened to physicians, police…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5676) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the suspension of payments by Medicare prescription drug plans and MA-PD plans pending investigations of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I stand today in strong support of H.R. 5676, a bipartisan bill centered on protecting Medicare beneficiaries from abusive opioid prescribing, while ensuring appropriate…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I just want to go into a little bit more detail and focus on how it is that we are here today and why there is an urgency to this. The gentlewoman just mentioned some…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. MacArthur) Mr. MacARTHUR. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for yielding. As co-chair of the Bipartisan Heroin Task Force, I have spent a lot of my time working on this…

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey. Mr. MacARTHUR. The bill is designed to make sure that seniors keep the drugs they do need and protect pharmacies that have done nothing wrong, while allowing us…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5723) to require the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to report on opioid payment, adverse incentives, and data under the Medicare program, as amended. The Clerk read the…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 5723, currently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is…

Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5773) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require Medicare prescription drug plans to establish drug management programs for at-risk beneficiaries, require…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I think Ms. Tenney's argument a minute ago is smart, it is good policy, it is thoughtful, it is measured, and it is the direction we should go. In other words, if there are…

Mr. Speaker, today I introduce the Federal School Meals Parity Act with my colleague Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands as the original cosponsor. Our bill would ensure that Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands are…