combating this opioid epidemic is something we are all in and we have to do, because we are looking at these very sobering statistics that 115 Americans are dying every day in the State of Ohio.

The State of Ohio has been diligently working to address this issue and helping to improve health outcomes for the moms and the babies out there.

the opioid epidemic is a scourge on this country.

We had 5,232 people lose their lives because of it by the end of the fiscal year of June 30 of last year.

Rep. Latta's bill, the INFO Act, embodies an all-encompassing approach by directing the Department of Health and Human Services to create a public and easily accessible electronic dashboard linking to all nationwide efforts and strategies…

Making that data publicly available is a large component of my bill the INFO Act because again I believe this crisis is going to get worse and we need to fight it.

Unfortunately Ohio, we all know what is happening there. We are behind Florida and Pennsylvania...

I am working on a bill right now that would create a publicly accessible electronic database to help mitigate these problems.

Those are the statistics but you put a face with them. And I talked with a parent who had lost a child because of opioid overdose.

Ohio, in 2015, we lost 3,050 people because of opioid overdoses and last year that total went up to 4,050.

Our goal today is to enact the right policies to encourage self-driving technologies.