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.

Bill: 118-hres-830
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Garcia, Mike [R-CA-27]
Introduced: 2023-11-01
Policy area: International Affairs
Latest action: action_date: 2023-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-11-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This resolution condemns China for its role in the fentanyl crisis. Specifically, China is condemned for its inaction in holding the Chinese producers of fentanyl precursors accountable.</p><p>The resolution also calls on the Biden Administration to (1) impose sanctions on Chinese officials, entities, and individuals with ties to fentanyl precursor production or trafficking; (2) designate Chinese financial institutions involved in evading U.S. sanctions; and (3) develop a plan to counter the shipment of fentanyl precursors and add China to the list of Major Drug Producing Countries.&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: IV 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 830 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 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

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 ).