[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 24 (Monday, February 7, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H982-H983]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        FENTANYL DRUG OVERDOSES

  (Mr. WALBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, 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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