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Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Mar 15, 2017
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Expresses the sense of the Senate that:
the use of illicit fentanyl in the United States and the resulting overdose deaths are a public health crisis;
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the trafficking of illicit fentanyl into the United States, especially by transnational criminal organizations, is a problem that requires close cooperation between the U.S. government and the governments of Mexico and China; and
all three such countries have a shared interest in, and responsibility for, stopping the production of illicit fentanyl and its trafficking into the United States.
Calls for the United States to:
support the efforts by the governments of Mexico and China to stop such production and trafficking into the United States;
take further measures to reduce and prevent heroin and fentanyl consumption through enhanced enforcement to reduce the illegal supply and increased use of evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery services; and
use its broad diplomatic and law enforcement resources, in partnership with the governments of China and Mexico, to stop such production and trafficking.
People & committees
Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] · D–MA
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Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1848-1849)
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1848-1849)
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1692-1693)
Introduced in Senate
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