Political Quotes

“Madam President, the United States is in the midst of the deadliest drug epidemic in our Nation's history, caused by the most lethal drugs ever created. More than 108,000 Americans died last year from drugs--more than 108,000--which is almost double the number of Americans killed in the entire Vietnam war. That is the worst slaughter of American citizens by drug dealers and traffickers on record. The biggest killers, by far, were lab-made opioids, most notably fentanyl, which are cheap to produce and easy to mix with other street drugs. These lethal cocktails have devastated countless families and communities across our Nation. Too many parents have come home to a dead child who has mistakenly taken a prescription pill or a so-called party drug that might have been laced with fentanyl. Indeed, almost no one dies of a fentanyl overdose thinking he took fentanyl. It is laced into other drugs. That is why, repeatedly, over the past 2 years, I and many of my colleagues have offered a measure to keep it illegal to traffic new variants of fentanyl, but, each time, a Democrat has blocked that measure. Later today, they will do so again. Perhaps we can at least agree on one thing: We should have no tolerance for people who willingly trick addicted drug users or other innocent persons into taking deadly fentanyl by telling them it is really something else. This happens every day with heartbreaking consequences across the country.…”