"President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar have made tackling the opioid epidemic a top priority."
"we can come up with bipartisan proposals to help make a difference."
"Four out of 10 working-age Americans suffering from an opioid addiction rely on Medicaid."
"Congress would be derelict in its responsibilities if it pretends there is no profit motive or corporate scheming behind the addiction crisis."
"I have also heard, more recently, agonizing stories from parents at home who have lost kids to the epidemic."
"Our Medicaid program is an important tool in providing health care to many Americans, but we must put it on a stable long-term sustainable footing for it to be there for this and future generations."
"$10 billion--to build upon the work started under the 21st Century Cures Act."
"Nobody has outworked Senator McCaskill when it comes to investigating how this crisis came to be."
"There must be a way to address what I call the 'prescription pendulum.'"
"You would think this would be obvious, but almost every other week some Tea Partier introduces legislation to test SNAP or TANF recipients."
"Deaths by drug overdose are the leading cause of injury death in the United States."