Elijah Cummings

I'm going to push very hard on this.

This is a very significant problem that's been going on a long time.

What would happen in West Virginia if the Medicaid expansion were rolled back?

We're going to continue the battle

I think this committee has to come to grips with what the strategy should be, and enact one.

I am concerned, very concerned that we are experiencing the single highest rates of overdose deaths in the history of our country.

We need the funding to actually then be able to expand the graduate medical education fellowships.

He said, 'How am I going to get there?'

I mean, and I guess that's one of the good things about the flexibility of the CARE Act.

Do you agree that the Federal Government, including both the Congress and the executive branch, could be doing more to address this generational public health crisis?

Do all of you agree that the majority of Americans who have a disorder are not getting the treatment that they need?

I've often said that, at 68, I've been seeing this drug problem a long time.

The response of the Administration and Congress has been woefully inadequate.

Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis.

Only 10.8 percent receive specialty treatment.

Well, going back to Ms. Pressley's questions about the whole idea of language, do you all feel comfortable?

Look, we are not Luddites here. We recognize, I think, advancements that science is making.

Twenty-one states, okay.

We are talking about people who have been arrested, right? Not necessarily convicted.

One of the things I am hoping that you will look at is that whole question.

Well, it is accurate.

We have seen significant concern among states about providing this level of access to the FBI.

So when you say 'leverage,' I guess you are saying that there were laws that were out there. These laws did not anticipate something like facial recognition, and now the FBI has decided that it would basically take advantage of those laws…

Well, if it was prior to facial recognition coming into existence, I am just wondering, do you think that whatever laws you are referring to anticipated something like facial recognition?

Thank you for the opportunity to address this important issue before the committee, and I look forward to answering your questions.