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Sept. 26, 2018 – With 72,000 overdose deaths in 2017, including nearly 50,000 involving opioids, members of Congress are eager to wield the bill as a substantive policy achievement amid the drama surrounding the fates of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, and Rod Rosenstein, his deputy attorney general. Both chambers still need to vote on the compromise bill. The House could vote as soon as Wednesday night, before its members adjourn to hit the campaign trail, and the Senate could take it up next week.

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