It sounds as though Baltimore is working hard to solve its opioid abuse epidemic, and I appreciate your efforts.

That's something that we've got to address.

I am pleased that the Protecting Our Infants Act, which I introduced with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, was recently signed into law.

Every State is different, and they don't talk to each other well.

Rhode Island is seeing this plague--239 deaths in 2014, which is more than homicides, more than suicides, more than car wrecks, indeed, more than all of those things combined.

Like a lot of States that we've highlighted today, Pennsylvania is not immune. In fact, unfortunately, the problem has gotten as bad in Pennsylvania as probably anywhere in the country.

Opioid abuse is a crisis that is engulfing families, public health professionals and law enforcement throughout the Nation.

There is no simple solution or law that Congress can pass to fix this problem, but there are commonsense steps that we can take.

Yes. By that time, it's gone too far.

I rise to talk about an amendment that deals with a fundamental issue for working families, and that is the cost childcare. By way of example, the weekly cost of childcare in Pennsylvania, roughly over the last 30 years, has gone up by 70…

I rise to speak about some of the matters we are working on today with regard to votes that will take place later on. We now are in a period in our economic history where we have had a significant recovery, but we still have a ways to go…

I call up amendment No. 2893. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Casey] proposes an amendment numbered 2893 to amendment No. 2874.

pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, I move to waive all applicable sections of that act for purposes of the pending amendment, and I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient…

We could have provided early learning to 3 million children at 200 percent of the poverty level and lower.

The economy has created about 13 million jobs since the low point for employment in early 2010.

I want to make sure that we continue that success with Feed the Future.

It is literally a national security issue.

I want to ask as well--I know that Senator Wyden raised the question of the European Union state aid cases and the overall impact because of potential targeting of U.S. companies and what that impact is for American taxpayers.

we really haven't turned wages in the right direction in several decades--by one estimate this past January, 40 years of wage growth amounting to just 9 percent.

I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate is in morning business. The Senator is recognized. ____________________

I rise today to speak about the recent terrorist attacks around the world--including, of course, the horror of Paris--but also to talk about what undergirds that, and that is the threat posed by ISIS. Some use the acronym ISIL; Daesh is…

one baby is born every 25 minutes with opioid withdrawals, meaning the equivalent of neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Thank you for the hearing.

I appreciate what you said in your testimony about the Duke contract as well as your own steps you've taken since being at the FDA on recusal.

children should not be therapeutic orphans, that is, doctors were forced to give treatments to children with no evidence about the right way to give the treatment.