David McKinley: “I strongly encourage you folks to make sure that you accept that decision and that you will apply it nationally going…”

But now it is five years later, and this committee, I think, apparently now, we are looking to see how it has been implemented.

So I want to make sure I understand this. Let me get this straight. The Biden administration's policy to combat this overdose epidemic is to shorten sentences for fentanyl traffickers? Seriously? This is your answer?

Come on, man. We can do better than this. Our communities in States like West Virginia and New Hampshire and Delaware are expecting something far better than that kind of response.

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