The bill promotes stronger penalties for fentanyl trafficking as well.
Members of the Senate passed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act to permanently reclassify fentanyl as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act and impose stricter penalties for traffickers caught smuggling fentanyl-related substances across the border. The legislation was passed in the House in February, but since the Senate vote approved some amendments to the original bill, it must be sent back to the House for a second vote to approve the changes.
“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,” Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said before the vote Friday. “We do this, we do this, we do this, we do this. And you put it all together, and you begin to push back upon the terrible toll fentanyl and other drugs are having upon our society.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For Speaker Johnson and members of the House when they return to Washington to consider the amendments made to the bill by the upper house of Congress.
- For Majority Leader Thune to seek God’s guidance as he oversees business in the Senate.
Sources: Washington Examiner, MSN
