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

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

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.

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

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.

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.