Hal Rogers

Woman, my district has historically lagged behind others in the Commonwealth and in the Nation, which is why I have made the economic development of rural Kentucky my top priority since coming to Congress. Creating jobs in a mountainous…

This is one of the bills that I have introduced. It would set up a uniform system for tracking painkiller-related deaths.

Our military soldiers are coming back from war hooked on these pain pills.

In my home state, we are losing about 82 people a month to prescription drug abuse.

I would much rather see your Subcommittee mark up these bills, move the ball forward, and take decisive action to end this debilitating drug problem.

Our medicine cabinets are more dangerous than our cars.

Distressingly, my home State of West Virginia has our Nation's highest rate of drug-related deaths.

What we need is a change in the rules of engagement.

The medicine cabinet is a bigger weapon than a car, and it is infecting the military as well.

We must strengthen drug diversion, educate our children and adults on prevention.

Drug overdoses now kill more West Virginians than car accidents.

You can't have an ally part-time. You either have an ally or you don't.

Obamacare is a budget buster.

It is high time that we get serious about reducing spending for the debt and the record-setting deficit.

The Appropriations Committee has been the tip of the spear in Congress to roll back the trend of increasing and unsustainable discretionary spending.

Twenty-three people lost their lives including 18 in just my district.

I lost 18 people in just my district, with hundreds hospitalized, hundreds are homeless.

However, there are a number of countries, notably Magoffin and Martin, which remain in dire need of both individual assistance and public assistance.

I think the biggest contributor to our annual trade deficits with China and with the world is the China effort to undercut our products.

There is not a single business that is left standing after that storm.

You do not need to be a Ph.D. of economics to understand that the global economy, particularly Europe, is in a tailspin.

We were successful in reducing discretionary spending by some $95 billion from fiscal year 2010 levels.

I am asking you if you would ask them to pay attention to the problems of that.

If we put a countervailing duty on Chinese imports into the country, based upon unfair trade practices that violate the World Trade Organization laws and rules, clearly, there is hardly a dispute about that.

The governor said it looked like a bomb went off. I agree with him.