Tony Cardenas actually said...

"I would venture to say--I am in Los Angeles, and in my community where I grew up in Pacoima, law enforcement seemed to be the answer to treating people with addictions or addressing the issue of peopl..."

"We need to look at this as treating addiction rather than incarcerating our way out of this."

"I am a proud sponsor of two pieces of legislation being considered today, including the Medicaid Reentry Act and the Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment, or MAT, Act."

"I think it is important that the departments understand that the amount of resources that we allocate at the Federal level, local level, et cetera, needs to be proportional to how we are going to--be ..."