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On the recordDecember 15, 2014
I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (S. 706) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows: S. 706 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2013''. SEC. 2. POSSESSION, MANUFACTURE OR DISTRIBUTION FOR PURPOSES OF UNLAWFUL IMPORTATIONS. Section 1009 of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 959) is amended-- (1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively; and (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``It shall'' and all that follows and inserting the following: ``It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance in schedule I or II or flunitrazepam or a listed chemical intending, knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe that such substance or chemical will be unlawfully imported into the United States or into waters within a distance of 12 miles of the coast of the United States.…
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware
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Dec 15, 2014

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