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Change to stop a lot of pill dumping in west virginia and across the country. >> another primary candidate congressman jenkins appeared with melania trump last year in a recovery center that he helped start. he argues he is the only one in d.c. casting votes to bring prevention funds here. >> how horrific to start your life going through withdrawal and today hundreds -- thousands of babies around the country are starting their life that way. it is unacceptable. we must give these babies every pr...

There with trey gowdy. there are several bills that are on the committees docket. and they hope to have these passed out of committee by memorial day. so that they can try to actually move forward on something that the entire nation has been wanting. not just the president of the united states. but also many democrats agreeing that this is an issue that we should absolutely deal with as soon as possible. and do we have the congressman yet? >> oops. >> okay. i thought i heard him there. one of th...

To have. you are certainly a welcome surprise. the president on this opioid addiction, we are going to talk about budget and tax reform a little bit later, but you being from west virginia, this is one of these states that has been ravaged by the opioid addiction problem, and do you welcome this action by the president? do you think it will have an impact? >> i am not here to welcome or unwelcome any initiatives of this government. the question that i think a lot of my fellow west virginians are...

Ineffective until this point? >> well, in fact, the pain is at the local level, you know, our governor, then governor, shumlin, addressed -- he dedicated his entire state of the state address in 2014 to the opoid addiction problem. i remember my colleagues in the house saying, peter, why is the governor doing it, its bad publicity. but then they acknowledged that the problem he was discussing was real in their own communities as well. so the response and the pain have come from the local level a...