We have been trying to get to the bottom of this pill dumping issue.

The United States has weathered a large share of natural disasters this year, including wildfires that have devastated literally hundreds of thousands of acres in my home state.

This crisis requires an all-hands-on-deck response.

People are dying, lives and families are ruined.

In my home State of Oregon, more people died last year from drug overdoses than from car accidents.

Each day, 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose.

I am going to be very blunt. My patience is wearing thin.

There is no silver bullet to this problem which is what makes the committee's work so important.

So we have asked for this information in a meeting. We have asked for this information in an email.

We are willing and able to codify net neutrality protections and establish a Federal framework in statute.

The 340B Program enables covered entities to do some real good in our communities.

I have met with several hospitals in rural Oregon that are using the 340B Program to improve care.

It is the job of this committee to ensure that the programs that Congress creates serve their intended purpose.

If we are ever going to tackle high cost of health care in America, it is our responsibility.

It is time that we looked at air quality as part of the overall mix.

Fuel loads continue to build up in our forests because of broken Federal forest policies that have led to a lack of management.

I really want to thank our Members on both sides of the aisle, and especially the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess) and the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Guthrie), who has an identical bill, the House companion bill to this one. S. 652…

These decisions on how, when, and how aggressively to fight fire matter.

We know that wildfires pour significant amounts of pollution into our air.

I thank the gentleman from Arizona for yielding and for his leadership on this, and to my other colleagues from the West, who understand what we face, the problems we face, and what has happened to our forests. I stand united with all of…

I hope they will tune in tomorrow and watch the testimony at that hearing. I think they will get a better understanding of what the people in our districts have faced. For a month this summer, schools had to be closed, festivals canceled…

Oregonians have been living with this problem in the rural West for years--smoke-clogged skies from catastrophic fires.

It makes no sense. It is four to five times more expensive to fight fire than to do the treatment.

The American people deserve to know what went wrong.

Ultimately, this issue is about fairness.