Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act
Floor Speech
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Mr. NEGUSE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me time.
First, I thank the ranking member for his leadership in addressing the scourge of fentanyl overdoses across our country.
I serve as one of the co-chairs of the Bipartisan Fentanyl Prevention Caucus with Representative Darrell Issa and Representative Madeleine Dean. It is certainly an issue that we have worked tirelessly on. I appreciate the bipartisan cooperation, notwithstanding, obviously, the disagreements with respect to this particular bill. I think the ranking member has spoken very eloquently with respect to his concerns.
I thank the ranking member for indulging me and giving me a few minutes to speak on the floor because, at the conclusion of this debate, I intend to make a unanimous consent request of the Chair. I would hope that it is a consent request that everyone in this House could agree to.
As many of my colleagues, of course, are well aware, there was a terrible, heinous terrorist attack in my district 10 days ago in Boulder, Colorado. We have introduced a resolution, H. Res. 476. It is a bipartisan resolution. Several of my Republican colleagues have joined me on this resolution.
It denounces anti-Semitism, condemns the horrific attack in my community, and lifts up the organization Run for Their Lives, which was heinously targeted by this terrorist. This is an organization that has been working every week to peacefully call for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
Mr. Speaker, I am simply asking for this House to consider my resolution. This terrible attack happened in my district. I have no doubt that if Republican leadership just puts the resolution on the floor, it will pass unanimously in this House. I have no doubt, so I am just asking my colleagues to give us the opportunity to weigh in or at least explain to us and my constituents why my community is being deprived of this resolution that honors law enforcement, the FBI and the Boulder Police Department, which acted so swiftly in response to this terrorist attack.
Mr. Speaker, I know Mr. Griffith, in particular, to be somebody who shares, I believe, my views as I have articulated them with respect to this particular attack, and I just hope that my colleagues would agree to give this resolution its due course.
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