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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

I am confident that you are the right person to lead the agency and help restore trust at OPM.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

I can't, again, stop telling you how important that is, and how, unfortunately, this situation has brought us all together.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

the sourcing of the products makes a huge difference, and so if we had the resources, and we had the ability to get further up the supply chain, I think that we could do a better job of making sure that those products that are affecting…

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is an independent agency responsible for monitoring the products sold or imported into the U.S.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

I want to emphasize that, this is one of those issues where both parties have agreed that it happened; it was bad, and it can't happen again. Something has to be done.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

I support the Commission's request for a modest increase in funding to address these issues, and I urge my colleagues to do so as well.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

When it comes to the products that come to our children's hands, to our store shelves, I think we can all agree that it is not government intervention; it is government making sure that another country is not sending us stuff that is not…

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

I know that the Republicans have a concern about overregulating, but with the Commission having to, first, go to voluntary standards I am very concerned about underprotecting our consumers.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

This is not a partisan issue. This is an issue of what is correct.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

It is not your information, it is the consumers' information, and the consumer ought to have the right to say yes or no as to whether you do it.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

I do not want that presidential candidate that I have been saying his, you know, been recording what I have been saying about him because he might get back at me.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

So four out of five recalls come from imported products and, not surprisingly, a very large percentage of those are from China.

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Susan Davis
@susandavis· Democratic · CA· Feb 24, 2016

Thank you for being here. I want to just very, very briefly mention, just to thank you, the department, I think they are following through on a letter that was received regarding increasing diversity among our schools, and we are very…

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

As more products reach our borders from abroad, we must do everything in our power to ensure this vital agency has every tool and resource necessary.

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José E. Serrano
@joseserrano· Democratic · NY· Feb 24, 2016

We have a duty and an obligation to ensure that those expectations are met.

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Susan Davis
@susandavis· Democratic · CA· Feb 24, 2016

We must continue to lead in deterring Russian aggression and, if necessary, in concert with our partners--but our first priority has to be to prevent conflict.

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Jeff Fortenberry
@jefffortenberry· Republican · NE· Feb 24, 2016

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for his thoughtful commentary and leadership as well on this essential issue. In fact, it is not an issue at all. This is an assault on all humanity. This is a threat to civilization itself. If a group of…

Congressional Record · 2016-02-24