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“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in support of S. 3201 to extend the emergency scheduling of fentanyl and its analogues. Fentanyl is a synthetic, which means man-made, opioid. It is 50 times more potent than heroin, and 100 times more potent than morphine. And while fentanyl is a schedule II drug, traffickers have been able to make small changes to the drug as a way around DEA enforcement. These fentanyl-like substances can be just as dangerous, if not more deadly, than traditional opioids. And the pain they have caused communities across the country is immeasurable. To combat these drugs, DEA used its authority to temporarily ban these products, but that extension expires next week. The fact that we are just now addressing this issue with 1 week to go, has been flirting with disaster. That is why I am so thankful that we are here passing this bill to protect our communities from deadly fentanyl products. This administration has put fighting back against the opioid crisis front and center from day one. And in the past several years under Republican leadership, the House passed a series of comprehensive, bipartisan legislative packages to help American communities combat addiction. We must all keep up that fight. I urge my colleagues to support this bill.”