Matt Cartwright: “In Pennsylvania, hospitalizations for overdoses due to pain medication increased 225 percent from 2000 to 2014.”

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 would inquire of Mr. Larson, if he would yield for a quick question.

I have one final question for Ranking Member Larson. This idea of raising the retirement age, as the gentleman has explained very well, constitutes a cut in benefits for every year Republicans raise it. Economists have worked out how much…