Congress handed President Donald Trump a victory in his administration’s fight against the fentanyl epidemic with the passage of legislation imposing steep penalties on smugglers caught moving fentanyl analogs into or throughout the United States.
The House voted 321-104 on Thursday afternoon on the Senate-passed Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act. The bill will now go to Trump’s desk to be signed into law.
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) introduced legislation to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, the highest possible rating. The bill was a rare example of bipartisan legislation.
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“This is not the end-all, be-all. There is no silver bullet short of national revival, universal revival to end the fentanyl epidemic, but there is silver buckshot,” Cassidy, chairman of the
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