REPORT: Important Senate vote postponed because of Hurricane Florence
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A Senate vote on a bill to address addiction and overdose from opioids planned for this week has been postponed due to the impending hurricane.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., put out a schedule for this week that included only Wednesday night votes, and the slate did not include the opioid package, a collection of 70 different bills known as the Opioid Crisis Response Act.
The article goes on to state the following:
McConnell praised the legislation from the Senate floor and said a vote would be “very soon.” The Senate is scheduled to be in session next week. Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall in the Carolinas later this week.
The legislation provides more access to medical treatment for addiction, authorizes additional funding for states to carry out their programs, and gives the National Institutes of Health more power to carry out research on treatment for pain and addiction. It allows the Food and Drug Administration to limit how many prescription opioids, such as OxyContin, doctors are allowed to give patients, and to set guidelines for how they can be packaged so that they are harder for children to get.
The Senate’s vote on bipartisan opioid legislation has been delayed. Vote expected early next week https://t.co/OLJA7kmiQI
— Brianna Ehley (@Briannaehley) September 12, 2018
Senate postpones vote on opioid package because of Hurricane Florence https://t.co/CSJwmezpjB
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 12, 2018
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Steve September 12th, 2018 at 8:18 pm
So it’s another normal week for congress,nothing gets done.
AFMomXs2 September 12th, 2018 at 8:51 pm
I don’t know why they even created this hot mess of Govt Spending. If your ass is addicted to drugs 99% of the time it is YOUR fault. Why do all the other taxpayers have to foot the bill for some damn junkie??