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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-194
JOINT TASK FORCE TO COMBAT OPIOID TRAFFICKING
ACT OF 2019
AUGUST 30, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, from the Committee on Homeland
Security, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3722]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3722) to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to au-
thorize a Joint Task Force to enhance integration of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security's border security operations to detect,
interdict, disrupt, and prevent narcotics, such as fentanyl and other
synthetic opioids, from entering the United States, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
Purpose and Sum m ary ........................................................................................... 2
Background and Need for Legislation ................................................................... 2
H e a rin g s ................................................................................................................... 2
C om m ittee C onsideration ....................................................................................... 3
C om m ittee V otes ...................................................................................................... 3
Com m ittee Oversight Findings ............................................................................... 3
C.B.O. Estimate, New Budget Authority, Entitlement Authority, and Tax
E xpen ditu res ....................................................................................................... 3
Federal M andates Statem ent ................................................................................ 4
Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives
D uplicative Federal Program s ............................................................................... 4
Congressional Earmarks, Limited Tax Benefits, and Limited Tariff Benefits
Advisory Committee Statement
Applicability to Legislative Branch
Section-by-Section Analysis of the Legislation ...................................................... 5
Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported .................................... 6
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