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Chair, the ayes have it. | |
| Joint resolution passed. | ||
| Gentlemen from Arkansas. | ||
| Mr. Recorded vote. | ||
| The yeas and nays, please. | ||
| The Asian Asia requested those favoring a vote by the Asian Ais will rise. | ||
| Sufficient number having risen, the Asian Aays are ordered. | ||
| Pursuant to clause 8 of Rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. | ||
| Pursuant to clause 12A of Rule 1, the chair declares the House in recess for a period less than 15 minutes. | ||
| Today in the House, lawmakers are considering the revised Republican 2025 budget plan approved by the Senate last week. | ||
| Also on the agenda, two resolutions that repeal Biden administration rules involving digital payment apps and bank overdraft fees. | ||
| And later this week, members consider legislation requiring in-person proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. | ||
| Watch live coverage of the House when lawmakers return here on C-SPAN. | ||
| Nearly 3,500 students across 42 states and D.C. participated in this year's C-SPAN Student Camp Documentary Competition. | ||
| This year, we asked students to create short videos with messages to the president exploring issues important to them or their communities. | ||
| All this month, we're featuring our top 21 winning entries. | ||
| One of this year's second prize middle school winners are two seventh graders from Correa Middle School in San Diego, California, where C-SPAN is available through Cox Communications. | ||
| Their winning documentary is titled One Pill Can Kill. | ||
| San Diego is America's eighth largest city. | ||
| It borders Tijuana, Mexico's second largest city, and one of the most dangerous places in the world. | ||
| I believe drugs make it through the border. | ||
| There's been a dramatic increase, about 400% in the number of cases we've processed. | ||
| We process over 236,000 people per day. | ||
| It's widely available and it's in everything. | ||
| He took one Xanax, and it was laced with fentanyl, and he died. | ||
| Fentanyl is an anesthetic that is 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times more vigorous than heroin. | ||
| The drug is composed of various chemicals making the opioid extremely dangerous. | ||
| Illegal fentanyl is manufactured in unlicensed laboratories in Mexico. | ||
| Fentanyl then enters the United States through illegal smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. | ||
| My name is Andrew Flood and I'm a Deputy District Attorney Investigator now. | ||
| I was actually a special agent with Homeland Security Investigation. | ||
| My name is Adam Gordon. | ||
| I'm an assistant United States Attorney and for about three years I served as the Criminal Division Opioid Coordinator. | ||
| My name is Sydney Akee. | ||
| I'm the Director of Field Operations here for the San Diego Field Office, U.S. Customs and Board of Protection. | ||
| Sure, my name is Scott Wall. | ||
| I'm the chief of police for the San Diego Police Department. | ||
| The fentanyl has perfectly legitimate uses in the medical field. | ||
| But when it's being used illegally and it can kill you. | ||
| There have been cases where say fentanyl has been mixed with other drugs with methamphetamine, with cocaine, and even different types of heroin. | ||
| Fentanyl and opioids are responsible for 80% of drug overdoses and deaths. | ||
| In America, from 1999 to 2023, 800,000 people have died due to overdoses. | ||
| They have lost not just a family member, but the memories of the family member, right? | ||
| Like you talk to them and it's not just the fact that they've had to go through this traumatic experience, but you lose somebody during Christmas. | ||
| Now you hate Christmas, right? | ||
| It's hard to believe. | ||
| 130 people die each day. | ||
| There's an unthinkable amount of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances pouring into communities. | ||
| Enough to kill every American seven times over. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| Sadly to say, it is actually very easy to get the drug. | ||
| For dealers, they're trying to make money. | ||
| People that are selling the drugs are trying to make money. | ||
| And the people that are addicted are finding money wherever they can and they're spending it on the drugs. | ||
| It's usually in vehicles, where basically a car that someone's driving and it's usually concealed in the vehicle, where it can be hidden, you name it, in people's car tires, in the pretty much gas tank, fenders, anywhere you could put something in the car, they could hide it. | ||
| Officers going through our training program, learning to identify deception, identify nervousness, apprehension, all the different things to say, hey, maybe this person is not telling the truth. | ||
| Outside of that, our technology is huge. |