03/21/2017
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"I along with many of my colleagues strongly believe that OMEGA deserves continued support and that eliminating the facility would be detrimental to national security."
"But it's the point I am making. You're adding new programs and at the same time drastically reducing standard programs that have really been proven to be successful."
"So, Mr. Secretary, when we have 174 individuals a day dying of overdoses, what is more high need than continuing investments in proven substance abuse prevention strategies that are very much critical..."
"It cannot be said enough, but you simply can't put forward a legitimate proposal for addressing the opioid epidemic at the same time that you are proposing more than a trillion dollars in cuts to Medi..."