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Has Marcy Kaptur voted to lock up fentanyl traffickers?

Matches stated record claim. She voted for the HALT Fentanyl Act twice and the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act in 2025, and all three passed the House.

Marcy Kaptur

Drugs: fentanyl trafficking penalties

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What they say

Her campaign says she has voted to lock up drug traffickers bringing fentanyl into her communities.

“She’s voted to lock up drug traffickers bringing fentanyl into our communities.”

What the record shows ·

The House Clerk records her voting Yea three times in the 119th Congress on measures of that kind: the HALT Fentanyl Act as H.R. 27 on February 6, 2025 (Roll Call 33), the same Act as S. 331 on June 12, 2025 (Roll Call 166), and the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025 on September 2, 2025 (Roll Call 220). All three passed the House.

Limit: Three recorded votes in the current Congress, not a score of her whole record on drug policy, and the check does not cover earlier Congresses. What a scheduling or penalty bill does in practice is not something a roll call shows.

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  1. Marcy's Prioritieshttps://marcykaptur.com/priorities/

    Marcy Kaptur for Congress · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

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  2. Roll Call 33, H.R. 27, HALT Fentanyl Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202533

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Recorded vote of February 6, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list.

    official legislative record

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  3. Roll Call 166, S. 331, HALT Fentanyl Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025166

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Recorded vote of June 12, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list.

    official legislative record

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  4. Roll Call 220, H.R. 747, Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025220

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Recorded vote of September 2, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list.

    official legislative record

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