Tom Marino withdraws his name from consideration for drug czar

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tom-marino-withdraws_us_59e5fa84e4b02a215b3321de

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Rep.Tom Marino has informed me that he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar. Tom is a fine man and a great Congressman!

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joint investigation from the Washington Post and 60 Minutes has found that several members of Congress, in a campaign led by the country’s largest drug distributors, undermined Drug Enforcement Agency efforts to stanch the flow of opioids by effectively stripping them of their most effective tool for stopping narcotics from flooding the streets.

The report has spurred President Trump to announce he would re-evaluate his nominee for drug czar. It also led to a show of alarm from Congressional Democrats. On Monday, Sen. Claire McCaskill opened a probe into the role these drug companies might have played in stoking the opioid epidemic, which has now claimed more than 200,000 lives, and said she plans to introduce legislation that would repeal the law at the center of the investigation.

The report detailed the ways some members of Congress—and in particular Rep. Tom Marino, who is Trump’s nominee to become the country’s next head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy—fought the DEA to push through a law friendlier to drug distributors, some of which ship to “rogue pharmacies and pain clinics.”

Sen. Joe Manchin called for Trump to withdraw Marino’s nomination, and Trump said he would be “looking into” the reporting about Marino.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/16/a_60_minutes_and_washington_post_investigation_found_tom_marino_and_others.html

 

a fine man, indeed, Donnie.