Month: September 2022

House GOP shines light on fentanyl
crisis

From the Sept 15 edition of the Washington Times

House GOP shines light on fentanyl crisis, blames open border for mounting overdose deaths

House Republicans are shining a spotlight on the fentanyl crisis, which
they said has been exacerbated by President Biden’s loose border
policies.

At a Capitol conference, the conservative Republican Study Committee
turned over the stage to parents whose children died
of fentanyl overdoses and had come to Washington to share their stories
and help lawmakers craft legislation to combat the epidemic.

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Washington Post Lost Voices of Fentanyl Rally Coverage

Families devastated by fentanyl deaths rally near the White House

April Babcock and Virginia Krieger both lost children to the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl and have pleaded with lawmakers and officials to ramp up enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border to stop the flow of illicit drugs.

On Saturday, the mothers built a kind of wall.

Fifty banners stretched for about 400 feet, nearly spanning the width of the National Mall. They featured faces of nearly 3,500 people who lost their lives to fentanyl. Many were young, even teenagers. Some wore their high school jerseys or graduation caps. They smiled, forever frozen in time on the banners, which Babcock said represented the thousands of people who have died of opioid use.

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Republicans Host Parents of Fentanyl Victims

Republicans Host Parents of Fentanyl Victims: Our Children Didn’t Overdose; ‘They Were Poisoned’

Parents whose children died after unknowingly ingesting fentanyl joined House Republicans at a roundtable Thursday to tell their stories and implore Congress to act on the growing epidemic.

The parents’ resounding message at the roundtable, led by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and the Republican Study Committee, was that their children had been “poisoned” and that their deaths were not overdoses.

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FVNNC Members attend Roundtable on Deadly Fentanyl Crisis

On Thursday Sept 15 Rep Jim Banks (IN) hosted a Roundtable on Deadly Fentanyl Crisis. Lori and Dean Ashenfelder,  Patricia Drewes, Wendy Thomas, and Barb Walsh participated. Fox News interviewed Nate Moellering on Friday Sept 16 on the America’s Newsroom. At the 3:25 mark you can see the Wendy and Patricia to Nate’s right in one of the still photos used during the interview.