[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 13, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H1533]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            BORDER SECURITY

  (Mr. HARRIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HARRIS. Madam Speaker, in the next few days, we are going to be 
asked to take another step on our journey to securing our border.
  The Congress has to take this very seriously because we have tens of 
thousands of people dying every year from drug overdoses with a lot of 
those drugs crossing our southern border. Just a few weeks ago we 
seized hundreds of pounds of fentanyl, a drug that can kill millions of 
people and, in fact, has taken tens of thousands of lives.
  We know our border is unsecured. We have to do whatever we can to 
give the President and the Department of Homeland Security the ability 
to protect our southern border.

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