Condemning the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the fentanyl crisis and urging the Biden administration to take certain actions to combat the flow of fentanyl precursors from China to North America.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 830 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 830

  Condemning the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the fentanyl 
 crisis and urging the Biden administration to take certain actions to 
  combat the flow of fentanyl precursors from China to North America.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 1, 2023

 Mr. Mike Garcia of California (for himself, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, 
 Mrs. Hinson, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Williams of New York, Mrs. Bice, and 
 Mr. Mills) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Condemning the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the fentanyl 
 crisis and urging the Biden administration to take certain actions to 
  combat the flow of fentanyl precursors from China to North America.

Whereas the Drug Enforcement Agency estimated that approximately 75,000 
        Americans died from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl in 2022, many of 
        which were poisoning deaths from fentanyl mixed with counterfeit illicit 
        drugs;
Whereas, despite adding fentanyl to its list of controlled drugs, the Chinese 
        Communist Party has refused to mitigate the production of fentanyl 
        precursors coming from certain provinces within the People's Republic of 
        China, such as the Hebei Province;
Whereas the Chinese Communist Party officially suspended all counternarcotics 
        and law enforcement cooperation with the United States since August 
        2022;
Whereas the Chinese Communist Party has refused to investigate and punish 
        individuals sanctioned by the United States Government for connections 
        to fentanyl trafficking activities;
Whereas Chinese cartels such as the Zheng Cartel export fentanyl precursors to 
        Mexican cartels such as the Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels, which then 
        traffic fentanyl into the United States; and
Whereas the People's Republic of China has made it their ambition to replace the 
        United States as a global leader, and would stand to benefit from 
        America's weakening through hundreds of thousands of our citizens dying 
        from fentanyl poisonings: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns the Chinese Communist Party for its role in 
        prolonging the American fentanyl crisis through its inaction in 
        holding the Chinese producers of fentanyl precursors 
        accountable;
            (2) calls on the Biden administration to impose additional 
        sanctions and charge Chinese entities found responsible for 
        supplying fentanyl precursors to Chinese cartels;
            (3) calls on the Biden administration to designate Chinese 
        financial institutions found to be evading, or assisting with 
        the evasion of United States sanctions;
            (4) calls on the Biden administration to impose sanctions 
        against any official within the Chinese Communist Party found 
        to have ties to fentanyl precursor production or trafficking;
            (5) calls on the Biden administration to develop a plan to 
        counter the shipment of fentanyl precursors to North America 
        from China; and
            (6) calls on the Biden administration to add the People's 
        Republic of China to the list of Major Drug Transit or Major 
        Illicit Drug Producing Countries, as specified under the 
        FENTANYL Results Act (Subtitle C of title LV of Public Law 117-
        263).
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