As chair of this committee, ive worked to ensure that every person dealing with addiction can access comprehensive treatment and care and when it comes to the bad actors that fuel this crisis, i have use this gavel to hold them accountable for their actions. This feeling comes at a very difficult moment for our nation. Overdose deaths in america have been rising for more than two decades and during the coronavirus pandemic, fatal overdoses skyrocketed to historic levels. Tragically, Overdose Deaths increased by more than 36 2020 and another 15 in 2021 with more than 100,000 lives lost. Biden Harris Administration and democrats in congress have taken aggressive action to address the supply and demand factors contributing to this races. President biden to office we have stopped more fentanyl at the border than ever before. This administration hasnt reached drug intervention seizing 800 pounds of pencil each month. This represents a or full increase in fentanyl interdiction over the previ
As chair of this committee, ive worked to ensure that every person dealing with addiction can access comprehensive treatment and care and when it comes to the bad actors that fuel this crisis, i have use this gavel to hold them accountable for their actions. This feeling comes at a very difficult moment for our nation. Overdose deaths in america have been rising for more than two decades and during the coronavirus pandemic, fatal overdoses skyrocketed to historic levels. Tragically, Overdose Deaths increased by more than 36 2020 and another 15 in 2021 with more than 100,000 lives lost. Biden Harris Administration and democrats in congress have taken aggressive action to address the supply and demand factors contributing to this races. President biden to office we have stopped more fentanyl at the border than ever before. This administration hasnt reached drug intervention seizing 800 pounds of pencil each month. This represents a or full increase in fentanyl interdiction over the previ
As chair of this committee, ive worked to ensure that every person dealing with addiction can access comprehensive treatment and care and when it comes to the bad actors that fuel this crisis, i have use this gavel to hold them accountable for their actions. This feeling comes at a very difficult moment for our nation. Overdose deaths in america have been rising for more than two decades and during the coronavirus pandemic, fatal overdoses skyrocketed to historic levels. Tragically, Overdose Deaths increased by more than 36 2020 and another 15 in 2021 with more than 100,000 lives lost. Biden Harris Administration and democrats in congress have taken aggressive action to address the supply and demand factors contributing to this races. President biden to office we have stopped more fentanyl at the border than ever before. This administration hasnt reached drug intervention seizing 800 pounds of pencil each month. This represents a or full increase in fentanyl interdiction over the previ
Judiciary committee, and we had some very rancorous debate within our own party, behind closed doors, out in the committee room, here on the floor over the patriot act. Over the extension of power under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts. I was very concerned, even though we had a republican administration, and president that i liked and respected, george w. Bush, smarter, wittier than people gave him credit for, a good decent man, but we have to consider the possibilities, and we have to be specific in our laws, and when we debated these changes before the Judiciary Committee back in the 109th congress, when i was a freshman, there were people, my democratic friends across the other side of the aisle, that were very concerned about an abuse of power that might be occasioned if we dont tighten up the patriot act. Anal enough, i read the bill as it existed, i read the law as it existed, i was pushing for some things to be changed, and it did cause me of concern that the title
After 9 11. Going into election year, what are the politics . This was a real demonstration. You had House Republican and democratic leadership on the same side of the issue with the white house. Then you had so many members voting to restrict this program. I think the fact that you solve the head of the house and Senate Intelligence Committee Consent publicly to examining how to possibly bring this and are put in more privacy protections as an example of what they are willing to do as a first step and if they can do that that they can get agreement on it and put that in place and maybe that will be enough to hold it off. It depends on what trends fires what transpires and whether it continues to down political discourse. A lot depends on how quickly Edward Snowden situation where there in russia or back in the United States is settled. Thank you for your questions. We appreciate it. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite co