Tim Murphy

Fentanyl is made in the lab and for many years it has been a powerful pain medicine used by patients with cancer or for those with extreme pain.

Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the opioid crisis, an even more dangerous threat on our streets--fentanyl.

We need a Federal strategy dedicated to combating fentanyl as the clear and present danger it presents to our national security and public health.

It is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.

We need an 'all hands on deck approach' to fight this problem, which will involve not just the Federal Government, but States, localities, and even international partners.

We can't arrest our way out of this. We have to treat it.

America is in a full-on opioid crisis.

Ultimately, I hope that this hearing helps to highlight ways in which we can strengthen clean competition and restore public confidence in international sports.

How fitting that we are holding this hearing on February the 28th, as we have the greatest Olympic athlete of all time, who has won 28 medals, before us today.

I am particularly concerned here about such things as the mental health disorders.

So here is an issue in where I think both sides of the aisle can agree that when you have a high deductible which is meant to discourage people from overutilizing the system that may work in some cases to keep people from running to the…

I think we have done a number of efforts I think both through the Medicaid program has done a fabulous job of working through that.

A bigger threat to their grid is the fact that Russia has invaded them and Russia has taken their coal fields away

It was supposed to have been that it would increase outpatient visits and actually reduce inpatient and emergency room visits and it has had the opposite effect.

Just to say, well, we shouldn't give the Medicaid expansion because these people are, quote, 'able-bodied' adults is not understanding who's getting it.

I got to tell you: We have got all kinds of numbers. Twenty-five percent average increase. Nearly a third of U.S. counties have only one insurer.

We have to figure out how we're going to give health care to the 11 to 12 million people who have gotten health care because of this Medicaid expansion.

80 percent of the people who are getting the Medicaid expansion are working.

So we're using old data that's not accurate anymore.

We want this to work, not hinder services.

And now some have suggested this could also have a negative or anticompetitive effect on the existing ZEV infrastructure. Do you agree?

So you have no say-so at all on how that money is spent?

I also want to say that the work you and Chairman Upton did on the 21st Century Cures is remarkable but predictable in terms of dedication that took place and the bipartisan work in this full committee that both the mental health bill and…

Is the Office of Transportation and Air Quality aware of the size of the electric vehicle charging market? Can you tell us what that is?

So--and I understand you can't discuss all those things, but just clarify for me. If there is a penalty, will that--is one of the options a fine?