Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I think that we need to bring back to focus what we are doing here. This bill does something that we have no objection to, which is to permanently classify fentanyl as schedule I. What we keep hearing on the other side, though, is about what more needs to be done, but their bill doesn't do it. Democrats have bills that would indeed increase law enforcement, that would indeed increase treatment for addiction, that would indeed increase the ability for us to research into these drugs and determine if there are possibilities in this ground where we could actually find antagonistic drugs that would help counter the overdose that happens from them, but this bill doesn't do that. Now, when they get up there and they start talking about the open border, this is not what this bill is. This is not what this bill is. This bill simply, as was pointed out last night, sort of codifies the status quo. Our communities want more. Democrats were willing to provide more. We have introduced bills that do more, but they were rejected by the Republicans. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”