Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from New Jersey for these remarks. Time is not on our side. This emergency scheduling order expires next week. The Senate is not in session next week. I know that we want to empower addicts, as the Senator from New Jersey said; that we want to help give them the treatment they need to get back on their feet. That is a goal I share. We are talking, though, about drug dealers, drug traffickers, cartels, Chinese superlabs. If we do not pass an extension--in my bill, a permanent extension of this emergency scheduling order--it is the addicts who will be hurt because the drug dealers and these cartels and superlabs will simply begin to flood our streets, once again, with the synthetic fentanyl analogs, which I remind you, again, can be 150 times more potent than fentanyl itself, which is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. I hope my Democratic friends will reconsider in the short time we have this week, and we will be able to pass a permanent extension of this scheduling order. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The junior Senator from New Jersey.”