David McKinley: “During that hiatus, during that period of time--seven months--215 people died yesterday from substance abuse.”

With all due respect, Chairman Rush--and we have been friends for years--this hearing seems to be taking on an air of distraction from what Americans are really dealing with across this country.

If I could recover my--that--we are not hearing the same. They are not--the people that I am talking to throughout West Virginia and places are not concurring with that, that there are delays in--and they are very concerned about the…

I think what you are doing by your memo is you are only going to make it worse.

But it appears to me the policies that have been put forth in the last ten months are doing diametrically opposite.