This is not a political issue. This is our children. These are our family members.
I guarantee you, every one of you has a Rutland in your State, but have they come together?
They did get it wrong.
We have to have realistic discussions of the issues communities face from opiate and other substance abuse...
I have never seen in my lifetime in this State a law enforcement community more fully committed to prevention and treatment efforts as we ha...
We have introduced it for reauthorization. It is going to be coming before the Senate Judiciary Committee very soon.
And I agree, and they are important. And it is also important to not fight over the quarters but rather fight for a result.
Without the funding secured by Senator Leahy over the years--and it does go back decades--our ability to operate the Drug Task Force at the ...
Thank you for your unwavering support of the city of Rutland. It is appreciated by all of us who are working tirelessly to get this right.
Under your leadership, Senator Leahy, this Judiciary Committee has held three field hearings in Vermont on the issue of drugs in recent year...
I have joined with some of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate as well as some of the most liberal Democrats, and we have been e...
You cannot arrest your way out of this problem.
We have to get ahead of addiction. We cannot let it corrode our lives and our communities.
I would note for the record, because this will be a part of the permanent record of the U.S. Senate, that at least half the hands in the roo...
Around the same time under your leadership, Senator Leahy, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a field hearing in this very room.
Not on our streets, not in our town.
If we are going to maintain what it is we find so important to each of us, a sense of community, it means we have got to step up...
But you know what? What we know is that when communities face their problems, it is the first step in solving their problems.
