My home State of Utah continues to be hard hit.

Four out of 10 working-age Americans suffering from an opioid addiction rely on Medicaid.

We have to use every effective tool to drive down the costs, because you can have really transformational health products, but people have to be able to afford them.

Chairman Hatch and I are determined to see this Federal/State partnership through.

You would think this would be obvious, but almost every other week some Tea Partier introduces legislation to test SNAP or TANF recipients.

more than 60,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2016--60,000.

we can come up with bipartisan proposals to help make a difference.

$10 billion--to build upon the work started under the 21st Century Cures Act.

Our Medicaid program is an important tool in providing health care to many Americans, but we must put it on a stable long-term sustainable footing for it to be there for this and future generations.

Doctors used to be criticized for prescribing too conservatively. Now they are criticized, and I believe fairly, for prescribing too much.

There must be a way to address what I call the 'prescription pendulum.'

I have also heard, more recently, agonizing stories from parents at home who have lost kids to the epidemic.

Deaths by drug overdose are the leading cause of injury death in the United States.

Nobody has outworked Senator McCaskill when it comes to investigating how this crisis came to be.

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The other proposal to be considered by us is the Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act, which is Congressman Webster's.

The first bill we are going to consider will be the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act by Congressman Royce.

Shark finning was made illegal in the United States by U.S. actors both in 2000, and once again in 2010.