10/19/2015
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"this is a scourge that we have."
"No, there's not a person up here, Democrat or Republican, that doesn't want to help people that are in severe pain, end-of-life pain, chronic illnesses, cancer. We're all fighting for that."
"this is truly a bipartisan problem. So this is not a Democrat/Republican problem that we have here, and it's a killer."
"780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone painkillers between 2007 and 2012. Now, mind you, we only have 1,800,000 people; that's all we have in our State."