addiction in this country? >> congressman, absolutely there is a connection between the drugs that are being imported through our southern border, which is a large majority of those drugs, and the opioid crisis we now face. in fact i went to china in august as chief of staff for then general sessions. he asked me to go to talk to the chinese about what more they could do to reduce the amount of fentanyl that's beeing produced in china. we had a nice dialogue with some high-level government officials and the president, as you know, has agreed with general xi to reduce fentanyl and eliminate fentanyl production in china. one of the ways china has agreed to do that is scheduling the analogs of fentanyl. it's a very serious problem an i know ohio is direct low affected by it. >> i've only got 30 more seconds. i know you've only got a week left -- >> less than a week actually. >> less than a week. yesterday this committee in a bipartisan manner passed the no oil producing and exporting