Thank you to the witnesses.
I doubt Xi Jinping cares about his chemical and pharmaceutical industry supplying the Mexican cartels that are flooding the United States wi...
We should be able to invest more in ports of entry to get a lot more fentanyl before it crosses the border.
That is why I co-authored the Fentanyl Sanctions Act with Senator Schumer in 2019.
I called this hearing because this is a national urgent issue and there are foreign policy dimensions to it.
I have a piece of legislation that is called the Expanding Medical Education Act, which I am going to reintroduce this Congress.
Let us focus on where the challenge really is. It is at ports of entry.
I am not satisfied in either of the two contexts that we are doing what we need to do.
We need to use every foreign policy tool we have to stop the flow of fentanyl into our country.
We have a bipartisan urgency to deal with this crisis and it is frustrating to me that in this hearing a lot of folks want to try to levy ot...
I know some of what we did in the IRA has made European nations kind of mad.
I believe, Senator, as I sit here that the cartels are acting with deliberate, calculated treachery.
We have to do more and technology is one way of doing more, but the truth of the matter is until we close our border this issue continues.
