Well, I was outraged and it's just disgusting. We are in the middle of public health and public safety challenge and crisis in our state. It's an epidemic and to hear the president of the United States characterize people with chronic illness and our state this way was just an outrage.
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Maggie Hassan expresses outrage over President Trump's characterization of New Hampshire as a 'drug-infested den' amidst an ongoing opioid crisis.
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I am concerned about the possibility that if the legislation were written in such a way, or if contracting guidelines were scoped in such a way that companies could find loopholes, then that would be disastrous for us.
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