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Greg Walden

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Greg Walden is a former U.S. Representative from Oregon, serving in the House from 1999 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Oregon's 2nd congressional district. During his tenure, Walden was known for his work on issues related to healthcare, telecommunications, and energy policy. He played a significant role in the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act, which aimed to accelerate medical product development and bring new innovations to patients more quickly.

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Apr 10, 2018

We believe this is budgetarily responsible as well.

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Apr 10, 2018

I believe that that would be the worst thing we could do. I believe it would stifle innovation.

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Apr 10, 2018

The incident involving Cambridge Analytica and the compromised personal information of approximately 87 million American users--or mostly American users--is deeply disturbing to this committee.

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Apr 10, 2018

Does Congress need to clarify whether or not consumers own or have any real power over their online data?

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Apr 10, 2018

This committee has already been instrumental in working in a bipartisan manner to devote a record--let me underscore record--amount of Federal resources toward the opioid epidemic.

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Apr 10, 2018

We must continue to push forward. And I would respectfully ask everyone involved, stakeholders and Members of Congress alike, to push beyond our comfort zones and think creatively and boldly about how we can help.

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Apr 10, 2018

While Facebook has certainly grown, I worry it may not have matured.

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Apr 10, 2018

We look forward to continuing our work with them to get a robust bipartisan package of proposals to the White House for signature of the President in the coming months.

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Apr 10, 2018

We can and must advance opioid legislation in a bipartisan manner that the American people deserve.

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Mar 20, 2018

President Trump rightly called it the crisis next door, and earlier this week, rolled out an ambitious plan.

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Mar 20, 2018

The goal is then to get to good public policy and try and help people back home.

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Mar 20, 2018

We stand ready to work with the President and his administration to put a stop to this crisis once and for all.

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Mar 20, 2018

The unprecedented plague of opioid addiction and substance use disorder in our country requires an unprecedented response.

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Mar 20, 2018

This epidemic knows no geographic, no political, nor any socioeconomic bounds.

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Mar 20, 2018

Today marks the second of three legislative hearings advancing collaborative bipartisan legislative solutions to help combat the opioid crisis.

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Mar 19, 2018

You raise an interesting issue about the U.S. attorneys weighing in here and saying to the DEA, stop--don't do your ISO--we want to proceed with the criminal investigation.

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Mar 19, 2018

There's enormous potential with the development of small-scale modular reactors including from my home State of Oregon in NuScale.

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Mar 19, 2018

For nearly a year, this committee has been investigating how inordinate numbers of pills were shipped to pharmacies in rural West Virginia.

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Mar 13, 2018

I now have the honor of yielding 3 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fitzpatrick), who has been, even before he got to the Congress, an extraordinary advocate for this cause and for the patients with terminally ill conditions.

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Mar 13, 2018

So at the end of the day, if we focus on what's best for consumers we will continue to make good public policy decisions.

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Mar 13, 2018

When Illinois took this up, they approved it 169-1 in their assembly. Mr. Speaker, I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Griffith).

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Mar 13, 2018

We are looking ahead to make sure we are doing everything we can to protect our electric grid and our oil and natural gas infrastructure as well and improve our ability to respond when the unexpected happens.

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Mar 13, 2018

May I inquire as to how much time remains for each side. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Weber of Texas). The gentleman from Oregon has 3 minutes remaining. The gentleman from New Jersey has 1 minute remaining.

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Mar 13, 2018

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter), a distinguished member of our committee and a pharmacist by training and trade.

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Mar 13, 2018

We have a history of producing bipartisan user fee reauthorizations, most recently as last year, and so I look forward to continuing in those efforts with this one.

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