But I think this hunt for blame does not really speak about the problem, and the problem is anybody can walk in and buy anything, .50-caliber weapons, sniper weapons, buy them in large amounts, and send them down to Mexico.

Last month, I authored with Senator Grassley the Targeting Transnational Drug Trafficking Act.

I think these numbers are shocking, and I think when you know the number of deaths these guns have caused, used by cartels against victims, it is literally up in the tens of thousands.

We have more guns in this country than we have people, and somebody has got to come to the realization that when these guns go to the wrong places, scores of deaths result, and that is exactly the case with the cartels.

I can't say that I like that approach very well.

we are not going to get this solved unless we have the public trust.

We need to have public buy-in on this, and using inflammatory language isn't going to help that happen.

my recommendation is to take a less inflammatory approach to this if you want to get your idea across.

the majority party here is using at least in part this topic as an opportunity to bash the Obama Administration.

going to the private sector and letting them take care of it is not going to really engender public acceptance.

The president has set back and tweeted but you've got to do more and you've got to lead.

The president has set back and tweeted, but you have got to do more and you have to lead.

Now that would allow goods to come into our country duty free produced some would say by slave labor, in any case certainly not by those who are free to bargain over their own working conditions.

we must invest in our ports.

Unfortunately, because California has the--very busy ports, and we have had the influx of invasive species...

Should our Government prohibit transshipment of goods through Mexico and Canada coming to the U.S., since they do not have the same security, the same safety, and environment regulations that we have at our ports?

The Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund is an important tool to rebuild our harbor infrastructure.

This is an agreement that will put American workers up against North Korean workers in fighting for jobs in the United States market.