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Today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08), a member of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump's nomination of Mike Pompeo to serve as Secretary of State.

As part of his ongoing effort to combat the opioid crisis, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) questioned Susan Gibson, the Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Diversion Control Division at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and spoke of his work to find common sense solutions to safely dispose of unused opioids at yesterday's Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing reviewing eight legislative proposals pertaining to the Controlled Substances Act.

Today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) released the following statement after the House passed his bipartisan MISSION ZERO Act (H.R. 880) to assist assigning Department of Defense (DoD) trauma surgeons to civilian trauma centers, filling a gap in care observed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) joined Rep. Tim Walberg (MI-07) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (MI-12) to introduce the Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act (H.R. 5041), a bipartisan response to the opioid crisis that will help prevent the misuse or diversion of unused medications by equipping hospice professionals with the legal authority to safely dispose of unused drugs after a hospice patient's death.