Edward Markey actually said...

"And you consider that to be your responsibility, to protect against deadly toxic materials going into streams, going into rivers in America?"

"And as a result of your protection of them, it will reduce the amount of toxic pollution which will go into the streams, that otherwise would be in the streams, that could have adverse impacts on huma..."

"So that is why it is hard to understand why people would object to this."

"Fentanyl is the epidemic. Fentanyl is the epidemic. It is not heroin. It is fentanyl."