(The Center Square) – Wrought with emotion by his brother’s fentanyl poisoning, a 31-year-old freshman congressman from North Carolina on Thursday implored colleagues to fight the deadliest of drugs at America’s borders.

Rep. Addison McDowell’s first time speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives had added meaning. McDowell lost his sibling to fentanyl poisoning in 2016, when Joe Biden was vice president in the Obama administration – a hierarchy with policies he says contributed to the fatality.

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