The presiding officer does any senator wish to vote or change their vote . If not, on the schumer amendment number 3483, it is not agreed to. 42 aye, 54 nay. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Portman mr. President , i rise today to urge my colleagues in the house of representatives to pass the legislation we passed here in the senate a few weeks ago called the comprehensive addiction and recovery act, or cara. We passed it on march 10. That was 27 days ago, almost a month. Every day we lose about 120 americans, they say, to drug overdoses. That means during that time period, those 27 days, weve lost about 3,240 additional americans who we represent to Substance Abuse and death from heroin and Prescription Drug overdoses. Since 2007, drug overdoses have killed more people in ohio than any other cause of accidental death, surpassing car accidents. Its probably true nationally now as well. Addiction is treatable, but nine out of ten people who need
In the 25 years i waited to get a medallion, i waited 30 but most guys wait 25. In those 25 years they pay five to 600,000 in gates. And that money goes to buy taxicabs to pay for dispatch, to pay for the mortgage on the building. We created this industry. Get your hands out of our pocket. Medallions right now have put in 84 million into thisf⌞ojfp ind. And if you want to run a cab company, you run it. You cant take that 1900 a month well call it the milk an÷ heinicke industry. You run the damn thing. Chairman nolan next speaker. Corey lamb, followed by carl mcmurdo and dan hines. Good afternoon. Sorry, i have 60 seconds for a lot of things. The one thing i want to say is this saturday, i wasixl1÷ approd by uber taxi lim ox bus whatever theyre going to be to sign up for their taxi app. I have pictures of the thing. We can talk about it later. I only have 40 seconds left. My point is they went from limos to big limos now they have priuses now they want top ujcm e taxis, next they wi
Corey lamb and then carl mcmurdo. Jim templeton i started years old. I will be 68 years old in november. You people cant run a bus company. Real world . 15 an hour and no pension. Youre paying your muni bus drivers three times what bus drivers in the real worlda] mae and youre using us as a piggy bank. This is going to in the 25 years i waited to get a medallion, i waited 30 but most guys wait 25. In those 25 years they pay five to 600,000 in gates. And that money goes to buy taxicabs to pay for dispatch, to pay for the mortgage on the building. We created this industry. Get your hands out of our pocket. Medallions right now have put in 84 million into thisf⌞ojfp ind. And if you want to run a cab company, you run it. You cant take that 1900 a month well call it the milk an÷ heinicke industry. You run the damn thing. Chairman nolan next speaker. Corey lamb, followed by carl mcmurdo and dan hines. Good afternoon. Sorry, i have 60 seconds for a lot of things. The one thing i want to sa
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