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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

Would you like to have people in China--do you think that is important?

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

Even if it's banning whole sets of products, until we are sure that there is no lead in any of them, period.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

If you need any additional legislative authority from us to do it, let us know.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

I hope in the appropriations process we can insert some of this language, so that we not only increase the funding for the agency, but we give it the authority necessary to fix the problem.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

But isn't it best to say, 'Look, if there is any lead in any of these products, the products don't enter America, period.'

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Greenberg, I hope you'll work with us on statutory authority, that I hope we can put in the appropriations bill and that the authorizing committee will agree with, so we can move that through rapidly, so that…

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

you're set up, almost, to see the occurrence of problems

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

Chairman, I want to hear you say, 'These products are not going to enter our stores.'

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

Do you believe you need the authority to enforce these standards that you've articulated?

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

If you need more statutory authority--and you've said you'll ask us for that. You should use it like a club.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 2007

I think that we ought to do here. Until we are sure that the system has changed and won't produce the same sort of products that we've seen.

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Pat Roberts
@patroberts· Republican · KS· Apr 19, 2005

the FBI used the USA PATRIOT Act when it executed a covert search of Mayfield's home.

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Pat Roberts
@patroberts· Republican · KS· Apr 19, 2005

the Justice Department has not produced any compelling evidence that the USA PATRIOT Act has been essential in preventing al Qaeda-style terrorist plots.

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Pat Roberts
@patroberts· Republican · KS· Apr 19, 2005

the administration has repeatedly stated its intention to expand the USA PATRIOT Act.

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Pat Roberts
@patroberts· Republican · KS· Apr 19, 2005

I would urge the Committee to tighten the roving wiretap authority to prevent anonymous or dragnet wiretapping.

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