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Byron Donalds: We are wasting more time in Congress. This hearing, although the opioid epidemic from pharmaceutical manufacturers in…

On the recordApril 26, 2022
We are wasting more time in Congress. This hearing, although the opioid epidemic from pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States was a serious problem in our country for a period of time, many states, like my state of Florida, like the state of Massachusetts, and so many of the other 48, have actually gone through legislation, at the state legislative level, to actually deal with overprescribing any opioid epidemic, as it existed at that time.
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Byron Donalds
Republican · Florida

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Donalds criticizes the congressional hearing's focus on past opioid issues instead of current crises.

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