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On the recordNovember 27, 2017
This is not a political issue. This is--it is, in my opinion, a public emergency and to bring the politics into it, I think, is inappropriate.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

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Palmer emphasizes the opioid crisis as a public emergency, not a political issue.

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