Senate health committee hosts opioid hearing with a single witness: a journalist
In an unusual move, the Senate health committee called just one witness — a journalist — to its hearing on the opioid crisis.
WASHINGTON — In its second hearing on the country’s raging drug crisis since President Trump directed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the matter a public health emergency in October, the Senate health committee called a hearing with a single witness: a journalist.
Such hearings conventionally spotlight high-profile government officials and career advocates with deep expertise in a subject. Every hearing this
