WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. Jim Banks issued the following press release:
Today, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) applauded President Trump's decision to designate fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction," as part of efforts to stop the deadly threat posed by narco-terrorists.
Senator Banks' first bill in the 119th Congress was the Countering Beijing's Weaponization (CBW) of Fentanyl Act. This legislation would amend the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 to define fentanyl and fentanyl precursors as chemical and biological weapons in U.S. law. This bill would also sanction Chinese Communist Party officials for refusing to curb the flow of fentanyl precursors to the United States.
Senator Jim Banks: (...