So let's just fast forward. Let's take five years. Finally, we have a new facility. What do you expect will happen with the Denver facility?

There was a bill in the package that will make the prescription drug monitoring interstate.

We now consume more opiates in the United States, 75 percent of the opiates produced in the world.

I think our appropriation is $1.6 billion at this point, billion with a 'B'.

I am concerned about several of the Drug Enforcement Agency's findings in its investigations of the Denver VA Medical Center's handling of prescription medication.

How are veterans from Denver going to get to this facility, people on fixed income, or from more rural communities?

So there are no cost savings from here on out?

What is going to happen to the existing hospital? What happens to the Denver facility?

After $1.6 billion, can we get a few years out of this one?

As Members of Congress, just last week we passed 18 bills in the House of Representatives to address the opioid epidemic.

But as to specifics, do you have cameras now installed in your pharmacy to keep track of any attempted diversion?

I thank my friend from Colorado for yielding, and I also thank the Representative from Georgia (Mr. Collins) for his words. In New Hampshire, right now, we have a four-times-greater chance of dying from a heroin or opiate overdose than a…