ICYMI: 86 House Democrats side with drug dealers

86 Democrats voted AGAINST a bipartisan bill to extend a ban on fentanyl, which kills over 32,000 Americans a year.

The 86 Democrats opposed the legislation because it would “send more people to prison.”

NRCC Comment: “Drug dealers and deadly terrorists are two groups House Democrats refuse to get tough on. What a joke.” – NRCC Spokesman Michael McAdams

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House Passes Fentanyl Ban Over Democratic Objections

Washington Free Beacon

Charles Fain Lehman

1/29/2020
https://freebeacon.com/issues/house-passes-fentanyl-ban-over-democratic-objections/

The House of Representatives voted 320–88 on Wednesday evening to extend a federal ban on fentanyl and its analogs, despite the dissenting votes and voices of 86 Democrats.

The bill, S.3201, passed the Senate unanimously, but languished in the House for almost two weeks, running dangerously close to a Feb. 6 deadline after which the Drug Enforcement Administration’s blanket scheduling of fentanyl and its analogs was set to expire. Such a lapse would have made it substantially harder for federal law enforcement to prosecute dealers of the drugs responsible for tens of thousands of deaths over the past several years.

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