Matt Cartwright: “Unfortunately, Congress did not take into account the harm to businesses and individuals as a result of what I have…”

You know that in northeastern Pennsylvania, our economy has been bumping along since the decline of coal mining, since NAFTA, which bestowed benefits and burdens across our nation, but unevenly across our geography.

We have to talk about this and this is where the rubber hits the road when we talk about the distribution of fentanyl into this country.

I thank Ranking Member Larson for yielding. I wonder if he would submit himself to a few questions and engage in a colloquy. Will the gentleman yield?

We have also heard talk about this Republican Study Committee, which is a group of 80 percent of the Republicans here in the United States House of Representatives, and it is a committee that came up with a proposal about Social Security…