Brett Guthrie: “Mr. Speaker, this is not the answer to the problem. This problem is not going to be solved by only putting people in…”

“Mr. Speaker, this is not the answer to the problem. This problem is not going to be solved by only putting people in jail and throwing away the key. I will tell you there are people who are purveyors of this illicit fentanyl that deserve to be put in jail and throw away the key. That is what we have to do to people that are selling this poison to children. Congress has people that testify before our committee that their child took Adderall before a test, and it was laced with fentanyl. They were poisoned. It is not that they had addiction issues. It is that they are poisoning our communities. There are people selling this. They are purveying it, creating it, growing it, and creating it chemically. What the Energy and Commerce Committee is doing, today we are doing the HALT Fentanyl Act to address the criminal justice side of it. However, my friend from New Jersey is correct, what also has to be addressed are the issues affecting people that are suffering from substance use disorder.”