National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022

Floor Speech

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Mr. HILL. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman of the committee and my ranking member for the world-class work on this NDAA package.

This package contains two of my amendments. First, my bipartisan bill, H.R. 3146, the SAVE Act, passed the House unanimously earlier this year, is included as an amendment. The SAVE Act builds on the good work of the Armed Services Committee to include important provisions to counter China by improving the U.S. supply chain independence and security.

Secondly, this en bloc includes my amendment to require the creation of an interagency strategy within the United States Government to disrupt and dismantle the production and trafficking of the drug Captagon that is being produced by the Syrian regime led by Assad.

In addition to regularly committing war crimes against his own people, the Assad regime is now becoming a narco-state.

The United States Government must do all it can to disrupt this industrial level of production of this drug currently taking place in Syria.

I thank my friends for their support of these amendments, and I urge support of this en bloc.

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