Patrick Leahy actually said...

"We are concerned because anytime you put a new opiate on the street--we all remember the days of Oxycontin."

"I would hope also the manufacturer would start cooperating with you; otherwise, they face the potential for backlash from Congress."

"In 1996, I voted against the Telecommunications Act in part because of concerns I had about the lack of competition in the cable TV market."

"We absolutely need it. It is one of the things we do not ever want to get into the position, for example, that Lake Erie did decades ago."