we must have the courage to act before it is too late and make historic investments in resilience to climate change.

I applaud this priority considering the accelerating impacts of climate change.

We are at a point with a beautiful, pristine lake that we can keep it that way, but it is going to take some real efforts.

So I might ask, how will the proposed budget request for climate resilience support with our work in protecting Lake Champlain?

We will keep working on this.

Right now, Vermonters are concerned about our 'great lake,' Lake Champlain.

Vermonters truly value the environment and the work of the EPA.

I ask unanimous consent to proceed as if in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Recommending Geoffrey Crawford

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I have joined with some of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate as well as some of the most liberal Democrats, and we have been effectively able to get legislation through.

As you do, to the extent you can, can you keep me and my office and Congressman Welch and Senator Sanders posted on that, what you are finding?

Under your leadership, Senator Leahy, this Judiciary Committee has held three field hearings in Vermont on the issue of drugs in recent years, including opiates.

Thank you for your unwavering support of the city of Rutland. It is appreciated by all of us who are working tirelessly to get this right.

Around the same time under your leadership, Senator Leahy, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a field hearing in this very room.

I would note for the record, because this will be a part of the permanent record of the U.S. Senate, that at least half the hands in the room went up.

You cannot arrest your way out of this problem.

you and I have had the privilege of going to some of the annual Boys & Girls Clubs breakfasts in Washington, DC.

We have to get ahead of addiction. We cannot let it corrode our lives and our communities.

So your department supports naloxone?

They did get it wrong.

We have introduced it for reauthorization. It is going to be coming before the Senate Judiciary Committee very soon.

I guarantee you, every one of you has a Rutland in your State, but have they come together?

I have never seen in my lifetime in this State a law enforcement community more fully committed to prevention and treatment efforts as we have right now.

I want to thank Peter Welch. He has got 40 different places he is supposed to be today, and he has been so concerned about this issue.