Two thousand opioid, fatal overdoses in 2016, in Massachusetts, and it is trending very young.

There is no defending cutting thousands of research grants.

We are choosing to hamper our progress as a Nation, we are choosing to ravage our medical community.

Behavioral health, mental health, addiction treatment, is health, and it belongs in health care just as fixing a broken arm.

This proposal should be dead on arrival.

So since I have 45 seconds left, it is no question in your mind that it is a gateway to cigarettes?

We respectfully request that you preserve and enhance the various rural programs under your jurisdiction for FY18.

We owe it to all current and future veterans to tackle these challenges now, and this subcommittee is committed to achieving that goal.

I have to tell you, as the ranking member, Chairman Frelinghuysen and I go to a lot of committee hearings. But this affects my heart.

After working 4 years to reduce the claims backlog, it is once again increasing, and the Choice Program will soon run out of money and is in need of reform.

It seems to me you make a lot of sense saying, we are not going to be in this business anymore, we want an off-the-shelf system.