Peter Welch actually said...

I think for rural America--and I applaud your efforts. That's first and foremost.

But there has to be some role that Congress plays. We can't be passive observers of what's going on.

I do believe that we must have a Marshall Plan for attacking this, much like we did with the HIV epidemic with the Ryan White bill.

We're not going to arrest our way out of this problem. It's not going to happen.