The thing that we are fighting is drug addiction here on the private sector, and there is not a single person sitting in this room who does not know somebody in their immediate fam...
But, let me just say that in my State of West Virginia, drug abuse is the number 1 killer.
I cannot believe the culture that we have today. When I was growing up, you got an aspirin or something and that was it.
I mean, we are just giving it for every reason in the world. I mean, they have problems here, problems there.
I talk to some of these veterans. They cannot transition back in because of their addiction.
But, if we cannot control it in the military--and, if the VA, Medicaid, and Medicare would not be dispensing opiates lik...
I fear this agreement will further undermine our ability and willingness to play that vital stabilizing role.
Money?
I think it does, thanks to the joint efforts of Congress and the administration to put the sanctions regime in place.
Now we have reached an agreement that will not only legitimize the Islamic Republic as a threshold nuclear state...
I know many Senators still have concerns--legitimate concerns, I might add--so I would like to address them head on.