Sen. Thune: HALT Fentanyl Act
March 18, 2025
March 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following floor remarks on March 11, 2025:
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Mr. President, Zach Didier was a good student, an athlete, and a musician. He was an Eagle Scout, star of the school play, and he was hoping to attend Stanford University. But 2 days after Christmas, in 2020, Zach's dad found him dead in his bedroom of fentanyl poisoning. He was 17.
Zach and his friends had gone to the mall to meet a dru . . .
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Mr. President, Zach Didier was a good student, an athlete, and a musician. He was an Eagle Scout, star of the school play, and he was hoping to attend Stanford University. But 2 days after Christmas, in 2020, Zach's dad found him dead in his bedroom of fentanyl poisoning. He was 17.
Zach and his friends had gone to the mall to meet a dru . . .