Congress Democrats are confronted with a counterposter for their opposition to bipartite legislation aimed at filling the gaps in American drugs by fentanyl traffickers.
The Fentanyl Act, which would make the temporary classification of Annex I for the analogues of permanent fentanyl, has opposed a non -profit organization supported by George Soros, which claims that the bill will exacerbate mass incarceration and limits research on these types of opioids. The Democrats, like the New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, pushed the same arguments, while seeking to hinder the adoption of the bill with various procedural amendments and maneuvers.
During the comments on Tuesday of the Senate, while he called to extend the temporary programming of fentanyl analogues, Booker said that the law on the judgment will implement “more severe sanctions for drugs” and that it “would not stop working until this body is more than just planning”. Other Democratic senators, such as Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, said that the arrest law would hinder research on fentanyl analogues and exacerbate mass incarceration among minority communities.
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Booker quoted the testimony Tuesday parents who lost their children because of fentanyl overdoses during his remarks, but the same mourning parents he reported call the congress to stop blocking the decision to permanently plan fentanyl analogues as the substances of Annex I.
“Continuous resolutions to adapt to the planning aspect of fentanyl analogues are simply a method to kick the box,” wrote Jaime Puerta, who lost his son, Daniel, in 2020 in a fentanyl overdose, wrote in a letter to Booker on Wednesday and obtained by Fox News Digital. “Fentanyl and its analogues were the main cause of overdose death in the United States, synthetic opioids representing more than 74,000 deaths in 2023 only.
Another parent who lost his child because of fentanyl in 2014, Lauri Badura, wrote in a separate letter to the main members of the Senate Judicial Committee only if he can not adopt the law on the judgment “How can the public prevent the hope that the congress will solve the wider problem of illegal fentanyl crossing our borders every day?”
Bridgette Norring, on the right, whose son, Devin J. Norring, died in 2020 of a pill which he thought was percocet but was in fact fentanyl, is comforted during the hearing of the judicial committee of the Senate entitled “The poisoning of America: Fentanyl, its analogues, and the need for permanent classes planning”, in the building of Dirksen, Tuesday, February 4, 2025. Drugs, Void, whose son Daniel died in 2020 of a fentanyl pill that he thought was oxycontin, appears on the left. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)
“I am not the only one to urge the passage from the Fentanyl Act,” wrote Badura. “Families across America – in your states! – who have lost a child or a loved one in poisoning in fentanyl want this bill to be passed. Our children did not want to die.”
The arguments put forward by the Democrats against this Bipartite bill reflect those of the Drug Policy Alliance supported by Soros, a 501 (C) 3 based in New York, which refused to make comments for this story.
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Earlier this month, after the Chamber adopted the law on the judgment with a vote of 312-108, the non-profit organization replied with a declaration warning that the bill “would create new minimum phrases compulsory for fentanyl substances” and would block “potential research which could discover new drugs on the overdose”.
Keith Humphreys of the University of Stanford, a former superior political advisor to the Office of the National Policy for the Drug Control of the White House, argued that the permanence of planning the law of judgment will increase incarceration rates among minority communities – similar to the impact of crack law during the war against drugs – are probably not founded.
“I don’t think [the HALT Act] Go make a big difference, “said Humphreys.” It’s illegal now, you cannot go around the fentanyl analogues … Also the size of the market is simply not comparable to the number of players we had with crack. “”
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Humphreys added that even if it can be “difficult” to obtain the approval of the substances of Annex I of the study, it is “not impossible”. But there are ways to plan fentanyl analogues as class I substances to eliminate these barriers, he noted. “You want to start planning drugs for use and for science and let them have two indicators.”
According to its sponsors, the HALT law would be used to reduce bureaucratic obstacles by rationalizing the recording process of researchers from Annex I, opening the door to more scientists to study the fentanyl analogues.
It is estimated that 58,000 fentanyl pills wrapped in gallon size plastic bags have been seized, the authorities said. (Bureau du Sheriff du Comté de MultNomah)
“The police must be permanent. It needs a final change to fight against the opioid crisis and to go after the criminals flooded deadly drugs,” said senator Bill Cassidy, R – La., A former doctor who introduced the HALT Act alongside meaning. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa and Martin Heinrich, DN.M. “The inaction of the congress only encourages China, drug cartels and other criminals that exploit our communities.”
But some Democrats, like Booker, want to do more.
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“This cannot be all that the Congress does. The entire bill cannot be our only answer, because the whole bill permanently provides what we have already scheduled temporarily,” Booker said on Tuesday. “I looked now, for at least three congresses on which I worked to try to obtain a wider approach to respect the fentanyl crisis,” he continued. “And three congresses, this body has failed to take up the challenge. I want to be here when my colleague says to me:” I told you “- and I give it permission to do it- that this body will do something beyond simple planning.”
Fox News Digital contacted Booker and other Democrats for this story, notably Whitehouse and Markey, but has received no response in publication.
