Jack Conway: “Prescription pill abuse is a reality that has touched the lives of just about every Kentucky family.”

This committee is about dealing with waste, and I would suggest to you, as Mr. Bishop did earlier, that if you can't make this--I mean, this is embarrassingly low as a standard, and if you can't make these standards, then you shouldn't be…

This issue knows no party. It is an American tragedy.

I would challenge any of my colleagues to go back to their districts and say this is good government.

When you take a look at the unnatural deaths in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, what you see over and over is not heroin or not cocaine, not even alcohol as much as you see Xanax, oxycodone, Methadone, and hydrocodone.