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we would ask the sponsors of this amendment to work with us to ensure that we can accomplish our shared goals of encouraging investment in energy efficient homes while also maintaining a safe and sound mortgage market for homebuyers.

would the Senator yield for a question? I would like to commend my colleagues for their support for energy efficiency programs that reduce residential energy consumption. Expanding the use of these technologies in our everyday lives is a…

I find it ironic. This is the first time we have actually heard specific reasons--all seeming fairly recent, mostly seeming fairly recent about objections to Mr. Szubin. But I also find it interesting that they talk about sanctions not…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Request--Executive Calendar

1 year ago today, the President nominated Adam Szubin to serve as Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes at the Treasury Department. Mr. Szubin's nomination was pending in the Banking Committee for more than 11 months before we…

I am hopeful that with the new president next year that we can go back and begin to instead of having votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act or not, whichever side you vote, that we can actually go back and begin to make changes against.

This is a public health crisis--opioid addiction--as so many of these other things are--and how related they are.

The limit that Congress put on providers... does not make sense now.

I think the other thing average citizens can do is to say, hey, look, in this community, somehow we have to have education at every grade level.

We need to fund research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as we do not know what the long term consequences to these infants are going to be.

Opioid addiction knows no boundaries. It is an equal opportunity killer of men and women, young and old, city, suburban, rural, wealthy and poor, white, black and Hispanic.

We applaud our Congressional leadership for recognizing that increasing naloxone access in our country does not alone fix the opioid epidemic.

We should avoid criminalizing pregnant women.

Understanding you are part of an administration with the legislature that is asking for the waiver. But, does that make sense to you, when dollars that would have been available now may be used for other things, when we know how every…

The current opioid crisis, as is all too well-known in Ohio, means that young people are dying at astonishing rates too often leaving young children.

If people were dropping dead at this rate of Ebola or Zika, how would we all be responding?

I mean, I have been to clinics, treatment centers around the State which clearly have the, as you say, the infrastructure to be able to do--if they had the dollars.

This hearing that Senator Portman called is a step toward that.

I opposed the waiver pretty obviously.

I am a great believer in the local community and where the local community comes together.

Senator Brown has been a ferocious supporter of it.

Folks who have health insurance are better able to access critical mental health and substance abuse services.

This is going to take what we have all come to talk about as the 'all of the above' approach.

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Filling The Supreme Court Vacancy