I was proud to join Congressman Guinta in helping to introduce, and I believe Congressman Coffman as well, the Jason Simcakoski Promise Act, which would help improve opioid prescription practices at the VA.

The good news is that the VA has shown success in reducing the amount of opioids prescribed to veterans, but I share the chair's concern that without access to effective alternative treatments and therapies to manage chronic pain, access…

You know, this is a big issue. I do not need to remind anyone in the audience from New Hampshire this now polls as the number one issue in New Hampshire for voters and constituents in terms of their concern above even the economy and jobs.

Well, thank you, Chairman Coffman, and thank you for being with us here in New Hampshire.

We will not solve the opioid use epidemic in New Hampshire or in the country or help our veterans without dedicated and coordinated efforts.

I think it is definitely a critical component.

Can you speak right into the mike?

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor a group of men who played a crucial and unique role in the Allied victory in World War II. The Army's 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, also known as the Ghost Army, used tactical deception to divert…

I want to also commend you on your leadership on the heroin crisis, and just remind my colleagues that we have a co-chaired bipartisan task force to combat the heroin epidemic in particularly rural economies.

We need to change the incentives to try to keep people in that program.

This happens to us in energy and it is happening to us in the cost of feed so that the equation between the price for milk and the cost of feed, we are being squeezed very, very hard in New England and in New Hampshire in particular.