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Tammy Baldwin: “We were successful in passing one bill called fend off…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Tammy Baldwin Western Wisconsin Journal interview

Published | Video Starts at 11:24

And Wisconsin in the last couple of years has lost 1400 people per year to overdoses of fentanyl and other opioids and other drugs. I believe we have to take an all hands on deck approach to the fight against fentanyl. We were successful in passing one bill called fend off fentanyl. The fend off fentanyl act looks at the entire supply chain and goes after it, starting with getting tougher on China, which has companies that are producing the precursor chemicals that are then going to Mexico, where the drug cartels are pressing pills. (11:24–11:30)

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