The legislation permanently reclassifies fentanyl as a Schedule I drug, meaning it has no accepted medical use and a high ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House passed the HALT Act on Thursday, a bill that seeks to permanently classify ...

Senators emerged from a hearing on the fentanyl epidemic in agreement about permanently categorizing the drug and related ...

House Republicans are moving quickly to pass legislation that would result in harsher sentences for people convicted of ...

The “Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act” would amend the Controlled Substances Act to include fentanyl as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it has no "accepted medical use and a high potential for ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday to consider legislation that would permanently classify ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee considered whether to permanently classify fentanyl and its related substances as Schedule I ...

The U.S. House passed a bill by Southwest Virginia Congressman Morgan Griffith to classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I substances. The HALT Fentanyl Act was ...

Lawmakers rallied around the HALT Fentanyl Act on Thursday, successfully passing the legislation in the House to classify the ...

Wrought with emotion by his brother’s fentanyl poisoning, a 31-year-old freshman congressman from North Carolina on Thursday ...

Congress is taking steps they say will help prevent fentanyl overdoses and increase penalties for drug traffickers. Congress approved what’s known ...

A Republican-led bill to impose harsher sentences for people convicted of fentanyl-like drug crimes narrowly passed the House on Thursday evening, with 98 Democrats supporting the measure. The GOP-spo ...