At today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-TX) spoke about drug policy.
I yield back the rest of my time the gentleman yields back for what purpose does gentleman from florida see recognition move strike last word gentleman is recognized thank you mr chairman i support the terry fix i can’t imagine being one of the 232 people sitting in federal prison right now thinking if i had committed the exact same offense after president trump
Had signed the first step act i wouldn’t be here anymore i’d be with my family but instead because of i think a flawed determination that didn’t allow retroactivity we are treating people differently for committing the same offenses we’re incarcerating some people for the very same offenses they would otherwise um not be incarcerated for and so i think that’s an
Appropriate fix there has been discussion today of fentanyl and i it irks me every time i hear someone talk about fentanyl overdoses because no one overdoses on fentanyl because i don’t think anybody really sets out to like score some fentanyl for a good time i get why it’s hard to keep cocaine from coming into the country people in the united states like using
Cocaine they seek it out they pay high dollar amounts for it and so that would be something hard to stop but since people don’t set out to use fentanyl since it’s something we don’t want in our country we should be totally capable of stopping it and the only reason we aren’t is because we purposefully allow our border to degrade not by accident not because of
Some some lack of capability or some unsolvable problem set but because there are some groups on the right and left who think that they will do better economically if we just let millions of people into the country and depress the wages of americans and the costs they’re willing to pay for that are the funerals and the deaths and the broken lives as a result of
Fentanyl poisoning because it is not an overdose it is a poisoning that happens yeah i i we’re in the month of september and i know all of us thought back to september 11 2001 when when we have to relive this day and you think about thousands of americans needlessly dying and then us going off into like 20 years of wars in every central asian cave or there might
Be a terrorist hiding to avenge those thousands of lives and i think today about the tens of thousands of lives that we are losing over and over again in every community in our country and we seemingly like clutch our pearls at the suggestion that we might think about dropping off a few tomahawk missiles in the sinaloa mountains where we know that that fentanyl
Is being manufactured so i don’t think it was unreasonable for president trump to ask the question about whether or not we ought to authorize the use of military force against the very people that are killing tens of thousands of americans for stuff that we don’t want so i think it’s a great fix to the terry act but i think if we really want to get serious about
What’s harming far more than 232 americans we would get we would get tough on the border and even tougher on the sinaloa cartel and i yield back the gentleman yells back does anyone else seek recognition if not the question occurs on the amendment nature of a substitute all in favor say aye aye opposed no the uh eyes have it and the opinion of the chair of the
Eyes have the nature of a substitute is agreed to reporting quorum being present the question is on the motion to report the bill h.r 5455 is amended favorably to the house those in favor respond by saying aye aye opposed i oppose no the eyes have it and the bill has ordered
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