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780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone painkillers between 2007 and 2012. Now, mind you, we only have 1,800,000 people; that's all we have in our State.

This is truly a bipartisan problem. So this is not a Democrat/Republican problem that we have here, and it's a killer.

Well, I think you can look for us to be very aggressive on working to be more encouraging to you either regulatorily or through the legislation to make sure that we--

The current situation is unacceptable, and we need more than tough talk from President Trump to address this.

It's long past time for this administration to get serious about this crisis.

This epidemic is an emergency. Every day, 175 Americans die from opioid overdose; yet, the administration has been shockingly silent.

We are depending on your support because I think the State of West Virginia can produce what is needed to be produced

It would seem to me that it would behoove our country to take a position that we are going to produce so much domestically, knowing that we can, just for the defense of our own nation, for the security of our nation.

I was amazed to find out that nowhere in the country are we mining any of this, producing any.

I am excited about the work that NETL is doing, and I believe we have a tremendous opportunity to continue to use our nation's abundant coal resources to strengthen our national security.

I believe the Department of Energy's research will help set us on a path toward reestablishing domestic production of these critical minerals.

It is time for Congress and the Department of Justice to shine light on these bad actors to protect the victims of this industry from exploitation and enslavement.

We owe it to the victims. But more than that, we owe it to the people-adults and children-who will be victimized in the future if we do not act now.

Thank you. OK, continuing right along on the North Korea issue line of questioning.

President Maduro is like a sweaty rhino running out of control around that area.

I appreciate the President's aggressive approach in Venezuela.

The FSMB also endorsed S. 2107, Department of Veterans Affairs Provider Accountability Act, which would require the Under Secretary of Health to report major adverse personnel actions.

I would also mention that the Ranking Member and I are on a bill together to spur more investment in carbon capture, sequestration, and utilization.