Pat Toomey

More Pennsylvanians will die this year from overdoses and misuse of heroin and prescription painkillers than from influenza or homicide.

This has been a remarkable show of bipartisan leadership here in western Pennsylvania.

The drug courts do work. We have had one since 2005 in Washington County.

It is really a major epidemic, and I thank you, Senators, for addressing it.

I have just one quick follow-up for a second round, Dr. Ling, if I could...

Thank you, Senator Casey. We will now hear from our first witness.

This legislation, which Senator Casey has co-sponsored--which I appreciate--will not only help individuals battling addiction to get treatment.

We need help to combat this problem.

It is my sincere belief that SIPC's misguided administration of SIPA and the Circuit Courts of Appeals' decisions affirming SIPC's actions pose a very real threat to U.S. investors.

On behalf of the Pennsylvania State Coroners Association, we are writing this letter in support of S. 1913.

If I thought it was realistic to renegotiate the agreement to make it stronger, I would support that option.

On balance, however, I believe the nuclear deal will deliver more advantages than disadvantages to the United States.

I wish they had not been agreed to, the end of the embargoes.

I think that was a compromise that should not have been made.

I do not believe the congressional defeat of this nuclear deal will lead inevitably to war.

I do not think that is right.

Most importantly, I do not see a more effective, credible or realistic alternative that would give the United States a greater probability at this point of preventing an Iranian nuclear weapon.

While this 'No Deal' scenario could play out in many, different ways, I think it is probable that it would leave the United States weaker, rather than stronger, in confronting Iran's nuclear program.

I remain opposed to this compromise. In my view, it could embolden Iran and strengthen its conventional capacity in ways detrimental to our own interest.

I am concerned that this dynamic creates a very--this fact creates a very dangerous dynamic, one in which the Administration will have a very hard time enforcing anything other than a massive violation.

We are being asked to vote to affirm an agreement that seems to me the enforcement of which depends in no small part on a very important document that not only are we not allowed to see.

I think it is clear that is meant to be completely all-encompassing, and yet we discover that there is a secret side agreement between the IAEA and Iran.

The Iran Nuclear Review Act of 2015 is abundantly clear, I think, that Congress is supposed to receive all the documentation.

The confusion of how a firm would be reorganized would likely lead policymakers to ignore the orderly liquidation authority.

I have serious concerns about any proposal that would once again force Congress to face another bailout decision.