through the amender to process and unless the gentleman wants to say something, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. mccarthy: i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today to meet on tuesday, june 12, when it upthe house takes the house ways and means

committee, which have done for bill packages and three bills related to appear to be his. >> though be a crisis of the spotlight of the latest sequel who weekly. it works response to opioids. tell us about some of the personal stories that you heard from lawmakers who have been personally affected by this. how widespread have you found the problem to be? are there areas of the country where it has gotten worse than others? >> this is a huge problem that is affecting every district across the country. found that depending on which part of the country opioids arepes of opioids affecting them in some areas, depending on the area of the country, they have been hit hard. say, the--2 >> you

problem is that we have still not built a functioning treatment system. given mccarthy said the house in the coming weeks will take up some 60 bills coming out of a committees, will any of them deal with those sorts of issues on treatment? therey're all bills -- are bills that work with medicaid and deal with the treatment. that we spoke to in that story is concerned that a lot of them are not addressing the full nature of the crisis, they are not looking at all of the aspect of opioid abuse, especially this and that extracts. synthetic drugs. >> what about the senate? addressing the crisis with a number of bills. the senate health committee has artie approved a bill, over for party -- 40 built into one bill.

next week they're having a mockup of their own opioid bill. the judiciary committee is working on their efforts to address the crisis. >> the trump administration >> they will focus a lot on education efforts that has been . that has been brought up the for. they will continue with this campaign. i think there will be -- the surgeon general has made an emphasis on naloxone. it has encouraged people to

carry it in case of an overdose. >> what surprised you the most in reporting on the issue? you and your cq colleagues? the issue of opioid addiction and the crisis that in your reporting has grown by leaps and bounds yet again between 2016 and 2017. sandhya: one thing that we noticed is that even though a lot of states are suffering from problems with the synthetic and illegal opioids, most of the bills that are being considered next week are related to prescription opioids. that is one of the reasons that the experts we talked to are concerned about how it is not addressing the scale of the problem. >> have there been experts in health care and legislators on the hill saying we need to do a comprehensive peace that is to combine and address many of the issues that may not be being addressed by the bills? sandhya: i think moving forward they will do consolidating and put together a bigger hill package. right now there are a lot of bills. next week they will consider dozens. >> sandhya raman, you can read at cq.com and also on twitter.

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