John Rice Carter: “Our communities are at risk, Madam Speaker, your community and my community--all of our communities. They don't care if…”

“Our communities are at risk, Madam Speaker, your community and my community--all of our communities. They don't care if it is a Democratic community or a Republican community. They are at risk. It is time for us to work together as a Congress to pass good legislation. We started to address the opioid epidemic in a bipartisan fashion when Republicans were in the majority with the passage of the SUPPORT Act--a bipartisan product--and the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. We should get back to working together, and this is a great opportunity to do so. Madam Speaker, as you know, professionally I am a pharmacist. I have witnessed this. It does not discriminate. Opioid addiction doesn't care if you are a Republican, a Democrat, a male, a female, African American, Caucasian, or Hispanic. It does not care. It is an addiction that is paralyzing our country. Madam Speaker, I urge defeat of the previous question so that we can immediately consider H.R. 2430. Mr. DeSAULNIER. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Lois Frankel).”