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On the recordFebruary 7, 2022
Each year, too many lives are cut short because of drug overdoses. And fentanyl and its analogs, most of which originate from China, are making this crisis even worse. Sadly, under the Biden administration's porous border policies, many of these deadly drugs are flooding across the southern border and devastating communities across the country. We need to use every available resource to fight back, including giving law enforcement the flexibility to go after drug traffickers who flout the law. Unless we take action, an important tool--the DEA's emergency scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances--will expire this very month. It is past time to make this scheduling classification permanent, and I am proud to cosponsor the HALT Fentanyl Act to do just that. Mr. Speaker, let's pass this bill, secure the border, and stem the tide of the growing fentanyl crisis. ____________________
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Tim Walberg
Republican · Michigan

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