"I have heard about the administration's considering restarting the detention of families. While some had posed a public safety risk, I get it."
"I remain concerned that flight crews are not adequately prepared with the tools and training to respond to opioid overdoses."
"So there hasn't been a partnership, so to speak. And I think a lot of Americans are fed up with it. We are fed up with 100,000 deaths."
"Drug overdoses impact every community. Overdoses contribute to the premature deaths of, now, over 100,000 Americans every year."
"Your budget request in 2024 has asked for an increase in the tools to assist in stopping these networks in human smuggling, fentanyl killing 100,000 Americans every year."
"But we need certainly to protect the budget where it deals with fentanyl. We can't let it continue to come."
"If you don't take care of the family, the member--the guard is not going to be successful, no question about it."
"I don't call that partnership. That is a different word. It is hardly partners when they don't partner the whole way up to the top."
"As the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Task Force, combating the overdose epidemic has been my top priority since coming to Congress."
"A revenue problem, a revenue problem, which the Wharton Econometric study and everybody else estimates at $2 trillion over ten years."
"I take exception that we have a point, that we do have a revenue problem. We blew a hole in the revenue problem when we dropped that corporate rate from 35 down to 21."