Substance use, opioid use disorder is a brain disorder. It is a disease that requires treatment.

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

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?

I've a great nice who's a year-and-a-half year old who is just the joy of my family, and I want to change this before she gets to middle school and becomes at higher risk.

We have to be aware of this dynamic in medicine, and make sure that the physician gets to make the call.

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

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

We need real infrastructure, and I'm sure that's why the SOR money hasn't even touched the community level yet.

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

We have not come here just to speak for those who have died. We've come to speak for the living and the dead.

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

Only 10.8 percent receive specialty treatment.

We had Elizabeth Warren in my district and we were talking about the CARE Act.

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

Narcan saves lives, and we need to use it, and we need to distribute it.

I'm going to push very hard on this.

we're going to continue the battle

If you have overcome addiction, you have done the hardest thing that a human being will ever have to do.

Nobody is above the law, not even the President of the United States. Today's resolution reaffirms that Congress has the independent authority under the Constitution to investigate waste, fraud, abuse, and wrongdoing so that we can pass…

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?

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.

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

There is wide agreement that we should be conducting oversight of this issue to develop commonsense, concrete proposals in this area.