Mr. Speaker, yes, America does have a wildfire when it comes to the opioid crisis; and what we are getting this week and next, instead of experienced, professional firefighters with a plan to put out that wildfire, we are being offered a…

Mr. Speaker, after talking about it, the Justice Department and the Trump administration have done nothing. In one single year, Medicaid paid out $9.3 billion associated with this opioid crisis, billions and billions of dollars. Yet, when…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman Correa for yielding. I think as Americans learned, mostly over the last few weeks, that young children were being separated from their mothers and fathers at the U.S.-Mexico border, and now have heard that…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the life of my friend, Mr. Jerry Lee Loupee, who passed away on May 28 at the age of 83. During my time being involved in politics in Chatham County, I got to know Jerry Loupee. I got to know him and…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, deaths from drug overdoses have risen in nearly every county across the United States, with 47,055 Americans being lost each year due to overdose, the equivalent of about…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, each year, approximately 4\1/2\ million Americans use prescription pain medications for nonmedical purposes, contributing to 89 deaths per day. Of those who misuse prescription…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in 2008 Congress strengthened prohibitions against inappropriately distributing and dispensing controlled substances online by passing the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous materials in the Record on the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5327) to amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to establish a grant program to create comprehensive opioid recovery centers, and for other purposes, as amended. The…

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 5272, as amended. The…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my strong support for H.R. 5327, the Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Act. This legislation will help support the establishment of…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I would also like to thank my colleague, Mr. Griffith, for all his work on this very important legislation. I would also like to thank him for including language that requires a report on…

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton), the principal author on the bill.

Mr. Speaker, I urge support of the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes. Mr. Speaker, we heard about this issue in both the Health Subcommittee that I chair as well as the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce chaired by Mr. Gregg Harper. We had…

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Mimi Walters), a valuable member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and cosponsor of the bill before us.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5002) to expand the unique research initiatives authority of the National Institutes of Health. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to express my support for H.R. 5002, the Advancing Cutting Edge Research Act. This important bill gives the National Institutes of Health a critical tool to…