[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4275]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    COUNTERING THE FLOW OF FENTANYL

  (Mr. OGLES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Speaker, Chinese Communists have been poisoning 
Americans. President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have refused to 
secure our southern border and refuse to hold China accountable.
  In the State of Tennessee alone, overdose deaths have increased 200 
percent--200 percent in 5 years. The situation at the southern border 
has gotten so bad, even the United Nations is saying that our border 
crossing is one of the deadliest in the world. Think about that for a 
moment.
  Therefore, I am introducing the Countering CCP Fentanyl Act. This 
bill would require the President to submit a list of all CCP government 
officials trafficking fentanyl and imposes property-blocking sanctions 
on all of them.
  We can't stop there. This legislation will make any CCP official 
caught pushing this poison inadmissible to the United States.
  Congress cannot stand idly by while Chinese Communists and cartel 
thugs line their pockets by drugging and killing American citizens.

  The CCP is using our porous border to continue their march to 
dominate the Nation. It is time to send China a message that their 
scheme to scourge the American population will not be tolerated.

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