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Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016

Floor Speech

Date: June 16, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care Drugs

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Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I have a motion to instruct conferees at the desk, which I ask the clerk to report.

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Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Colleagues, this motion to instruct has bipartisan support from the authors of CARA. It reflects the bipartisan work that was done on CARA, and we hope that this motion to instruct will get a strong bipartisan vote.

This motion supports the bipartisan Senate work on the CARA bill that passed this body 94 to 1. It supports the bipartisan language worked out between Senator Blunt and Senator McCaskill on the Missouri county prescription drug management program issue. It supports a focus on the rural communities for which opioid has been a plague, which is a bipartisan concern. It supports the passed bipartisan version of the veterans opioids measure from the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it supports the Senate HELP Committee's passed bipartisan version of the bipartisan TREAT Act.

If we can pull together as a Senate, we can have a really great bill. Please send the conferees a strong bipartisan vote.
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