today the Senate continues to work on legislation that addresses the heroin epidemic affecting our communities all over the country. Every State represented by a Senator in this Chamber is affected by it. I am pleased to see that yesterday…

that is good news. The Presiding Officer just announced the results of the vote, and that is good news because it means the Senate has just taken another step toward the passage of CARA, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. I see…

We will lose probably 25 people in Ohio, this week, and 100 people in America, today, to overdoses.

This porous border with Mexico provides cartels reliable means to infiltrate this country--to smuggle and traffic drugs and people in the United States.

The number that you hear commonly is that 9 out of 10 of these packages of heroin, which are killing our constituents and the people we represent, are getting through.

I am pleased to see that on the floor we continue to make progress on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. The legislation before us today, yesterday, and this week has been about how to deal with this growing problem we have…

I have got to tell you, I found your comment just then very interesting. You said if members would just go and see these cleanup sites they would understand it.

I thank my colleague from Nevada for yielding to me to speak for a moment in response to the comments made by my colleagues about the legislation before us, which is legislation to address the horrible problem we have in all our States of…

I ask if my colleague would defer to me for just 2 minutes so I may address the CARA bill that Senator Whitehouse has been talking about, and then I will yield to the Senator from Virginia. First, I wish to thank Senator Whitehouse for his…

I cannot wait to talk to you, Rita, but let me just ask Cecil a quick question.

first I thank my colleague and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley. Many years ago I went to Iowa with Senator Grassley to set up an anti-drug coalition. We had done one in Ohio. I was the chair of that, and Chuck Grassley…

These Teamsters played by the rules, as was talked about today, did exactly what they were told to do, and worked long hours and many years with the expectation that this would be there.