Let me applaud my colleague from West Virginia, Senator Capito, for her work in addressing the opioid epidemic. It is something that I know, in a bipartisan way, we care about in this Chamber, and it is one place in which I think we could come to some agreement about increasing resources as we come to an agreement on the budget for the upcoming year. So I thank the Senator for her comments.
Jeanne Shaheen: “Let me applaud my colleague from West Virginia, Senator Capito, for her work in addressing the opioid epidemic. It is…”
On the recordJanuary 11, 2018
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