Combating the Opioid Crisis

WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Judiciary Committee Republican Leader Doug Collins (R-GA) applauded House passage of S. 3201, the temporary extension on the fentanyl analogues ban.

For weeks, Walden and Collins have pushed Democratic leadership to pass this extension after Democrats objected to its inclusion in the spending bill. Without this extension, the ban on fentanyl analogues would expire on February 6, making these drugs essentially street legal.

“There is no question that fentanyl poses an absolutely deadly threat to American lives, yet...

Washington, D.C. – Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), and Republican Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to request a review of the billions of dollars in grant funding dedicated to combatting the opioid crisis.

"Congress has authorized billions of dollars to address this crisis, but even we cannot adequately track where and how the funds were used in many cases," the members wrote in the letter.

The Energy and Commerce Committee has been at the...

WASHINGTON, DC – Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing, titled – “A Public Health Emergency: State Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis” – where we will be conducting oversight of states' utilization of federal funding to combat the opioid crisis.

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Madam Chair, thank you for holding this critically important hearing.

For many years, the Energy and Commerce Committee—and this Subcommittee in particular—has been at the forefront of the Congressional effort to address the opioid crisis, as well as substance...