Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6265) to require a strategy by the United States Government to disrupt and dismantle the Captagon trade and narcotics networks of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 6265 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 ``Countering Assad's Proliferation Trafficking And Garnering Of Narcotics Act'' or the ``CAPTAGON Act''. SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY STRATEGY TO DISRUPT AND DISMANTLE NARCOTICS PRODUCTION AND TRAFFICKING AND AFFILIATED NETWORKS LINKED TO THE REGIME OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD IN SYRIA. (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that-- (1) the Captagon trade linked to the regime of Bashar al- Assad in Syria is a transnational security threat; and (2) the United States should develop and implement an interagency strategy to deny, degrade, and dismantle Assad- linked narcotics production and trafficking networks.…”