Democrats should get on board with legislation aimed at curbing opioid abuse, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor Thursday morning.

“Now is the time to finalize it, as the nearly 200 groups who fight this epidemic in our states are advocating, because this issue is just too important to be caught up in partisan politics,” McConnell said, listing a number of groups in his home state of Kentucky who support the bill.