Maggie Hassan

The heroin, fentanyl, and opioid crisis is the most pressing public health and safety challenge facing both my home state of New Hampshire and our country.

My colleagues and I have sent letters urging the FTC to investigate these harmful, deceptive, and unfair marketing practices.

We are committed to giving our veterans access to the tools they need to improve their education and employment opportunities.

It is vitally important that we support our military veterans and their families.

I introduced legislation called the Senior Scams Prevention Act with Senator Bob Casey to combat continued and increasingly complex attempts to defraud one of the Nation's most vulnerable populations, our senior community.

The opioid epidemic literally keeps me up at night

I think it is in fact time for the FTC to investigate these mechanisms to ensure that children are being adequately protected.

We must hold companies accountable for their data practices.

Your agency, though, doesn't have a great track record. So it is very clear that there are going to be recommendations of new safety regulations that come out of this tragedy with the hope that we will never see another tragedy like this…

I would really highly recommend that you take what you can share with state governments now from this investigation.

It seems that you'll have no regard for timeliness when it comes to implementing congressional mandates and recommendations from the NTSB, from the GAO, or the Inspector General's Office.

Yes. So we're talking about computer programs. We're talking about new technology to help prevent this kind of incident and, of course, the new technology has to be protected by strong cybersecurity.

According to a 2016 GAO report, PHMSA has not implemented one-third of its mandates.

Why shouldn't the top of their agenda be, not to mention the top of Congress's agenda be, to implement this requirement as a matter of state regulation or state law?

They are looking to their state and Federal governments to step up and make sure that we implement the rules that we have.

We want to offer our deepest sympathies and condolences to the family of Leonel Rondon, the young man who died because of an explosion.

So what you're telling us is that there are models out there that could be used that could help prevent this kind of incident from occurring?

We are going to make the Merrimack Valley gas system safer than ever and we're going to be here working with you to meet these commitments.

What I would urge you all to do is when a recommendation, even if you haven't finished the complete review, seems like there's an obvious recommendation out there, that state legislators could act on immediately, get that recommendation…

We lost one precious life and we all know that several others were hospitalized or injured.

It's 2018 in the United States of America and nobody should be worried when they come home at night that their house is going to explode, nobody.

We have to not only get to the bottom of what happened but make sure that we take steps to ensure it never happens again.

But we do not need to detain children or separate them from their families in order to be secure.

Both are possible. Because we are the United States. We do hard things.

We have the capacity, in the United States of America, to control our borders without harming children.