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Culture of behavior. i don't think he thinks he's done anything wrong. >> a lot of guys don't. >> what's frustrating to me is the money was used. it's taxpayer dollars that was used, which is why i introduced the bill, the stop act, which is stop taxpayer obligation to perpetrators of sexual harassment. again, this is something that, to me, shouldn't have been in place at all. we are using taxpayer dollars to settle these cases. he should voluntarily resign. we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. where he may not feel his behavior was inappropriate, obviously somebody did. obviously p...

We're back with our health lead now as the opioid crisis continues to grip the nation. highly potent synthetic drugs are becoming more prevalent. the dea says drugs like fentanyl are up to 50 times more portent than street-level heroin which is why it's often mixed in with layerin, often without the user's knowledge. two lethal doses of heroin on the left and on the right a deadly dose of fentanyl. 3 milligrams is enough to kill an average-sized adult male. two senators have introduced bipartisan legislation to address this growing crisis by attempting to stop the shipments of this drug from c...

But every state is affected. amy klobuchar and i have worked on these issues together for years and we have a new legislation called the stop act that sensibly let's require the post office to have the information at the other private carriers have said law enforcement can find these packages and keep this poison out of our communities and of course, the president should raise this with president xi because china has the opportunity to shut down these labs and to make illegal b's chemicals go into making fentanyl. this is the new synthetic heroin that is just devastating. >> bill: change one m...

Expansion cause in my state, it was our bipartisan dicaid expansion program that for the first time offered treatment to thousands of people who needed substance misuse treatment. we also know that we absolutely need those essential house benefits. you just played the clip of congresswoman clark talking about that. before the requirement that insurance companies cover substance misuse treatment, they often didn't. and so it's really critical that the administration stop trying to roll those efforts under the affordable care act back and support expanded treatment. and then here in the senate, ...

Affordable care act back and support expanded treatment. and then here in the senate, i'm a co-sponsor on three different bills. the stop act, which would help us crack down on fentanyl importation into this country. the salt act, helping us crack down on synthetic opioids. and then the lifeboat act that senator mansion is championing, which would create a permanent revenue stream for treatment funding. >> what do you think of the argument that the president has repeated time and time again on the campaign trail, and he was today that the border is the source in some senses of the epidemic des...