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House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13), today applauded House passage of H.R. 5046, the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Act of 2016 which passed by a vote of 413-5. The Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Act of 2016 authorizes $103 million per year from Fiscal Year 2017 through 2021 for the creation of the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program. The program would provide competitive grants to states and local governments to expand services that address the growing rate of opioid abuse and overdose deaths.
I am pleased to rise in support of H.R. 5046, the "Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Act of 2016." H.R. 5046 is an important complement to a wide-range of legislation being considered in the House this week that is aimed at combating the devastating impact of drug abuse and addiction that is afflicting communities across our Nation.
We are in the midst of a major public health crisis caused by prescription and opioid abuse. It is a crisis that affects Americans of all ages, races, and income levels in our cities, suburbs, and rural areas across the United States.
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H.R. 4771, the "Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2016" (Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.): This bill sets conditions for lawsuits arising from health care liability claims. The CBO estimates that the reforms contained in the bill would lower health care costs by an estimated $40 billion over a ten-year period.
Earlier this week, through a court order, the United States government demanded that Apple Inc. help the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) develop software in an effort to break the encryption on an iPhone that was recovered after the recent shootings in San Bernardino, California. The government cited the "All Writs Act," enacted in 1789, to demand that the technology company create a new version of the iPhone operating system to circumvent several security features on the device. Apple has five days to respond to the court's order.
H.R. 759, the "Recidivism Risk Reduction Act," is part of the House Judiciary Committee's criminal justice reform initiative
"I commend the Chairman for bringing H.R. 759 before the Committee today. It is critical, as part of the Committee's efforts to reform our criminal justice system, that we take action to improve our federal prisons, and I am pleased that today we will consider a bipartisan, substitute amendment to this bill which will establish a better way of operating our prisons.
"The massive growth of our prison population is a crisis in both human and fiscal terms. Over the past four decades, the U.S. prison population has skyrocketed.