Rob Portman

Thank you. Briefly, in terms of the timing here, 26 months since we started this process, over a year since you promised it in your own Memorandum of Agreement.

In 2015, I learned the story of eight unaccompanied minors from Guatemala who crossed our Southern Border.

We are seeing wages going up.

I think that is very, very likely.

We are stealing it from our children.

I cannot find a one who is not saying this is good for them.

The prior authorization process requires additional approval from an insurer or its pharmacy benefit manager before dispensing.

I hope you will take another look at that and consider a 3-day limit, again, for acute pain.

We set a 3-day limit. We do that because of the science and because of what CDC has told us.

I just think it is one of those issues that we should be able, on a nonpartisan basis, to address and address quickly.

We are allowing people to have access to this fentanyl in our communities, the poison is coming in.

It is amazing to me that we are allowing our United States Post Office to be able to continue not to provide law enforcement the data they need to go and find that needle in the haystack.

Sixty percent of the people who died in Ohio of overdoses, in the most recent data we have, died of fentanyl overdoses--carfentanil, fentanyl, other synthetic opioids.

It is not only costly but, qualitatively, it is, in some respects, the most important thing the post office does.

This is not an easy job. There are lots of challenges.

I would just suggest we have a bipartisan proposal to do that, and we ought to move forward with it.

The deferred maintenance backlog is something we all care deeply about and I appreciate the Chair and Ranking Member focusing on this during its second hundred years.

I think that is a legitimate concern.

Do you pledge that the United States while you are Secretary of State would never recognize the annexation of Crimea?

Do you support the continuation of providing defensive lethal weapons to the Ukrainians so they can defend themselves?

I am encouraged to hear that. And as you know, we have made some progress recently getting some funds there.

We export way below our weight and we can do much, much better in terms of opening markets for our products, including our ag products.

I thank Senator McCaskill, Senator Blumenthal, and the other Members who came to speak. We will continue this dialogue tomorrow on the floor before passage. I yield back. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rubio). The Senator from Ohio.

By not having a commitment to it, to restart it, it is going to take billions of dollars and years and years.

We need to have a source for enriched uranium.