This crisis, this opiate crisis, is devastating our country.

Patients afflicted with substance use disorder deserve to be treated by physicians who are armed with all of the necessary information.

Today, we are here to discuss a bill that would make timely reforms to a privacy law that affects patient access to healthcare.

I urge all my colleagues today to take a look at how we can bring substance use disorder treatment and the rules and laws governing them into the 21st century.

The conferees wish to stress their conviction that the strictest adherence to confidentiality of substance use disorder patient records is absolutely essential to the success of all drug abuse prevention programs.

Today, I offer an amendment to prevent a person from operating an unmanned aircraft or an unmanned aircraft system in the national airspace if that aircraft is equipped or armed with a dangerous weapon, unless that equipment is authorized…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank the gentleman for calling this Special Order hour to honor the life and legacy of his constituent, Barbara Pierce Bush, whom we lost last week. I am certainly proud to stand with my colleague…

I urge adoption of the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 49 Offered by Mr…

I have an amendment at the desk, and I rise to speak in support of the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of title V the following: SEC. 543…

I thank the gentleman from Mississippi for participating in our Special Order tonight. I thank him for his leadership in the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the work that he has done to help control this crisis. I now…

I thank the gentleman from West Virginia for his comments. Mr. Speaker, now I am pleased to yield to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg).

The opioid epidemic has swept across the country impacting millions of Americans who lost loved ones to this preventable crisis. No community is immune. Just as the President of the United States has said, this is, in fact, the crisis next…