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On the recordJanuary 8, 2018
As Senator Alexander very generously noted earlier, last Congress, Senator Capito and I had passed a bill to try to tackle this problem...
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren discusses a bill aimed at reducing opioid prescriptions.

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