"PHA has written to Senators Richard Durbin and Barbara Mikulski to thank them for their leadership on the American Cures Act."
"This is a very real problem in every corner of my State."
"I wish we didn't have to be here today. I wish we didn't have a persistent and growing drug epidemic in this country--one that is ravaging our communities and killing our young people."
"In Maryland, it is, indeed, a public health epidemic and a public health emergency."
"Every day 46 Americans die from prescription opioid overdoses. That's two deaths an hour--17,000 annually."
"More Americans now die from drug overdoses than from car accidents."
"Thank you for really working on a bipartisan basis to move this legislation."
"He'd be eminently qualified and look forward to supporting his nomination proceeding."
"When you look at us, we have a chairman who is very much dedicated to NIH, certainly a vice chairman who is."
"You do not want to break a promise to Barbara Mikulski. It is something you will hear about."
"I call it the 'National Institutes of Hope.'"