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Right now I see no higher priority for the Forest Service than treating our forests to make them healthy again.

Later on this year, I will be introducing the EUREKA Act, Ensuring Useful Research Expenditures is Key for Alzheimer's, EUREKA.

Unless we find a cure or a new drug therapy to halt the progression of this disease, treatment costs will continue to rise.

The 21st Century Cures legislation is a great move towards that, but it has to be better.

If you allow the FDA to continue to not be cooperative, continue to not be transparent, and continue to not be collaborative when it comes to biomarkers, you are going to see all this industry and all this intellectual property go outside…

I do not blame the FDA for being risk adverse, the way Congress treats them.

It just seems to be one after another, and I don't know how we are going to stem the loss of confidence of the American public.

I appreciate the hard work Senator Toomey has put in. Our staffs have worked together. I wish to thank Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray for their hard work on this. This young man from West Virginia, Jeremy Bell, was the victim…

We export about 15 percent of what we produce in coal because obviously this administration doesn't like us burning coal in America.

If we are going to have exports, we ought to at least tax it or get some kind of fee on that export. And all I can say is, with all due respect to those that want to tax our exports, that will require a Constitutional amendment because…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 62, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,000,000)''. Page 132, line 24, after the dollar amount…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 62, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,000,000)''. Page 62, line 19, after the dollar amount…

I believe that if VA, Medicaid, and Medicare...did not go to prescribing opiates first, but as a last resort.

We commend Ranking Member Blumenthal and Senator Moran for their leadership on this important legislation.

If we can set the culture going in a different direction, maybe we can set the country going in a different direction.

We have got to look at how did we become the most addicted nation on earth.

While I think in every part of the country we are concerned, West Virginia has been hit very hard by opiates.

Why not pay for the service that would be needed that would not get them addicted?