[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 150 (Monday, September 19, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H7885-H7886]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  MAKE FENTANYL A SCHEDULE I NARCOTIC

  (Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address

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the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, last year, over 100,000 
Americans lost their lives to drug overdoses and 70 percent of those 
deaths involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
  These lethal compounds have continued to pour across a southern 
border that is not secure, and into communities that remain overwhelmed 
by this terrible onslaught.
  Unless we in Congress act, possessing fentanyl will become completely 
legal in just over 3 months.
  Unless we work now to permanently make fentanyl a schedule I 
narcotic, Americans will wake up on New Year's Day in a country where a 
drug responsible for tens of thousands of deaths can freely be sold on 
our streets.
  Our communities are counting on us.
  We need to pass legislation that permanently labels fentanyl as the 
deadly drug that we all know that it is.
  No more short-term bans.
  No more playing politics while lives are at stake.

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