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

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.

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

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

I have the utmost respect for my colleagues, and I think they make compelling arguments. I just have a hard time. I really have a hard time, with this. I have not had one West Virginian--average, working West Virginian--who had a good job…

I come here before you today, joined by my colleague Senator Baldwin from Wisconsin--but also by colleagues from both sides of the aisle, as she mentioned--in support of legislation to provide safer and more effective pain management to…

I look forward to hearing in greater detail from our witnesses about the impact of these proposed regulations and the need for clean air policies that do not overburden our States and cripple our economy.

The largest impediment we have to operating our business successfully is our own government, particularly the EPA.

Part of the ARENA Act says we should not move forward with these regulations until all the legal aspects are settled.

We need to get these cars fixed. And we have been talking about this since last year.

Put simply, there is no way that this massive, largely EPA-driven reduction in coal-fired electricity generation is going to impact only coal States.

Affordable energy matters.

We are going to see rate increases that I believe will be substantial.

Wouldn't it be advisable as a matter of public policy before implementation of the most expensive rule ever imposed on the electric utility sector, $9.5 billion a year, to know up front whether the rule is legal?

This Senator is going to fight for additional funding for NHTSA, but there also has to be accountability.