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“Madam Speaker, I rise to support H.R. 3878, the Block, Report, And Suspend Suspicious Shipments Act, which was led by my Energy and Commerce Committee colleagues, Representatives McKinley and Dingell. This legislation addresses an alarming problem that was identified in the committee's 2018 bipartisan investigation in the distribution of prescription opioids by wholesale drug distributors. The committee found that when millions of prescription opioids were dumped into communities, large and small, across the country, the distributors flagged the orders for the DEA, but shipped the orders anyway, even after notifying the authorities that the orders were suspicious. H.R. 3878 would place additional commonsense obligations on drug manufacturers and distributors who discover a controlled substance suspicious order. In addition to reporting the suspicious order to the DEA, this legislation requires the manufacturer or distributor to exercise due diligence, to decline to fill the order, and to provide information to the Drug Enforcement Administration on the indicators that led to the belief that filling the order would violate the Substances Controlled Act. We all have a part to play in the fight against the opioid epidemic, and it is critical that pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors step up in stopping pill dumping. Madam Speaker, I thank my colleagues, Representatives Dingell and McKinley, for their extra effort on this legislation.…”