She has experience, she has a great perspective, she has integrity.

There are significant management challenges that remain.

We need her. She is the nominee for Deputy Secretary, a key management role.

We have a situation now where more and more families are facing this challenge of addiction.

this is one that is not going to be the silver bullet to stop drug abuse in our country, but it will stop some of this poison from coming in...

I would like your commitment today that you will work with us on legislation called the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act...

this is the 32nd time I have come to the floor in the last year to talk about an issue that unfortunately is getting worse--not better--and that is the epidemic of opioids; that would be heroin, prescription drugs, and now, more recently…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Ernst). Without objection, it is so ordered. Opioid Epidemic

we are asking President Trump to raise this with President Xi because, you are right, China is not doing enough to close down these laboratories and keep these materials from being spread.

we are not going to build a wall where it does not make sense.

I was very complimentary of comments that you had made to this Committee about a year and a half ago now regarding the importance of focusing on the demand side.

We are attempting to get passed simply to say let us require that these packages have this information.