West virginia is suing opioid distributors to force them to report unusual sales. The man in charge of those suits is the attorney general, but his critics question just how close he has been to the drugmakerers. Jim axelrod and ashley velie continue their investigation. We are in mango county, West Virginia. Reporter the battle against opioids in West Virginia, the state with the countrys highest rate of fatal overdoses is being fought on many fronts. Patrick morrisey its the attorney general. What is happening in West Virginia right now is that we are losing a generation of people to despair. Reporter in the last five months, morrisey implemented statewide prescription guidelines, moved forward with a predecessor against 11 drug distributors and filed a new suit against the nations top drug wholesaler mckesson for flooding the state with 100 million pain pills in a five year period. But the fight against opioids in West Virginia is complex. As one look at morriseys career path makes
This needs to be a comprehensive, ongoing, sustained effort. We have to stand strong against our adversaries and stand strong with our allies, and we have to do it consistently and we have to do it over time, and we have to be steadfast. Thats the type of Foreign Policy that can be effective. Thats the type of Foreign Policy we need to undertake. Thats what were trying to accomplish with this legislation, and i commend the sponsors of this legislation who are here on the floor today. I hope further that my colleagues will support not only this legislation but critical investments in our Nuclear Bombers and Cruise Missile forces when we consider the annual defense bills later this year. Im very familiar with these systems as the b52s are based at the air force base in my state. They provide a tremendous deterrent in a very important part of the nuclear triad, but we have to continue to invest in that nuclear triad, in the bombers, in the icbm missiles and in our submarine fleet. I belie
Has almost eight times more sanctions with then we have a regime that does possess a Nuclear Weapon we have more work to do there is a great step the also the United Nations disappointment. I think it is good you bring up the fact when we begin putting the sanctions in place there was a lot of push back for these to work properly to make the biggest difference of outcomes and when we began the process it was unilateral and well we stress on the front end aware that originated to put in place efforts in they were able to for say behavior change. I think they thought they would have a better outcome but. But first but she went to work with our personnel and and the chinese put such an emphasis on stability in to it is right on their border but but more important and the patience that you talked about earlier he has been around as the chief intelligence director in washington 43 years. He knows he is talking about he is never been in this type of a threat position in all 43 years. He wave
As a result, many states including West Virginia and oklahoma whose attorneys general we will be hearing from today, have raised grave concerns about the legality of the rule and implications for their citizens and ratepayers. In addition to constitutional and legal questions states have expressed concerns about the feasibility of the proposed requirements and the likely impacts on electricity cost and reliability. At risk is the belief that states have always had to make the decisions about their electricity generation. West virginia chose to rely on coal to provide affordable and reliable electricity for our consumers and businesses. Other states have made different choices that best serve their citizens. But under the Clean Power Plan each states electricity plan will have to meet epas criteria producing Carbon Dioxide emissions. Other regulations like the utility mact rule is computing to rising electricity rates and growing concerns about reliability. Weve had testimony and other
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