June 27th, 2017
Heinrich Leads Press Conference On Harmful Impact Of Senate Health Care Bill On The Opioid Crisis
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, hosts a press conference with U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) to highlight the devastating impact that the Senate Republican health care bill would have on curbing the opioid epidemic. Communities in New Mexico have suffered through some of the highest rates of opioid and heroin addiction and overdose deaths in the nation.