Jaime Herrera Beutler: “Because I was thrilled when I heard about this.”

You obviously worked these issues. Not all Secretaries do, to be honest.

I think one of the things, we were talking about fentanyl and overdose deaths and those increasing.

In Washington State, just in 2021, there was a 66 percent increase in drug-related overdose deaths, and more than half of these are due to fentanyl.

I think my challenge is, is that they limit the pool of qualified bidders primarily to one stream of bidders.