We need your help on this because we can keep talking about how we want more of this and we want more of that, but nothing is going to happen.
They are not going great. They are going terribly.
I was embarrassed not to have a better answer for her--and that is what got me involved in this.
I agree the price of heroin is too low and I agree we should be doing more to deal with that, to stop the Fentanyl from coming in, and so on...
I appreciate that. You guys are focused on the right thing, in my view.
We have a crisis and an epidemic going on right now--and it is right in front of our eyes.
We spent 2½ weeks on the floor with this legislation, called the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA).
Twenty-two years ago, a constituent came to me, and said, 'My son just died. What are you going to do about it?'
This is an illness, this is to be treated as a disease--trying to take away the stigma.
I'd like to thank Ohio Senator, Rob Portman, a member of this Committee, for his support and leadership on U.S. innovation.
That is why I introduced S. 1996, the Commonsense Reporting Act.