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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, the first public servant to prosecute the Sacklers, told the committee she would like to see the bill passed before an Aug. 9 hearing on Purdue’s restructuring proposal.

“It’s an incredibly wealthy family who have been able to buy lobbyists, lawyers and public relations campaigns, and are now trying to buy relief by offering something in bankruptcy proceedings,” said Healey, a Democrat.

Maloney, who chairs the oversight committee, admitted at a press conference on Tuesday that passage of the bill is not a certainty and hoped the hearing would rally support from Republicans.

“You still have hope,” she said.

Republicans on the committee seemed less interested in his bankruptcy bill than in targeting another contributing factor to the opioid crisis, which has been linked to the deaths of nearly 500,000 Americans over the past two decades. and has worsened since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. They used the hearing to say the United States must focus on stopping fentanyl and other deadly synthetic opioids at the border with Mexico.

Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, noted that Maloney’s bill was not assigned to the oversight committee, but rather to the judiciary committee, where it was not put to a hearing. He said Democrats, who control the House, Senate and Presidency, could pass the bill on their own.