Eliminating the paper pedigree until we have something else in place would be creating greater loopholes for insertion of counterfeit drugs and substandard drugs into the distribution chain.

I disagree with the part that says that we should only focus on emergency aid because I believe that the work of both of your organizations really leads to us--well, really leads to preventing the type of emergencies that take place.

I think you ought to increase that instead.

I think we are going to see as California did after living with these furloughs, the voters got upset and just went to the polls and then raised taxes.

Why can't law enforcement be trusted to exercise their discretion when engaging in similar tracking using GPS systems or cell phones?

It is said often by the proponents of foreign aid that it is the most poor and dispossessed that become terrorists and wage war against us.

I think if you want to stop the dumping of tomatoes, just have the American tomato growers produce a tasteful tomato.

if we want both vehicles and low-income consumers to get cheap natural gas, we are going to have to keep natural gas cheap.

To think that sequestration had very little impact because you did not have to lay off or furlough people is a misnomer.

what right to work, or what I call right to work for less will mean in terms of the wages and working conditions of those who work on these projects?

One thing that disturbs me with our aid with regard to Syria, but also other places, is that we are deliberately obscuring the fact that the aid comes from the United States.

Currently, women hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs... we also need to make sure that some of this money is directed at increasing the number of women getting STEM degrees.

I wanted to ask specifically about the Senate bill that is before us on comprehensive immigration reform.

Our development aid is the right thing to do and that is reason enough for us to pay for it.

I commend you for holding these hearings.

what we really need are good jobs at good wages.

while the economic theory is that free trade works perfectly, and will enhance everybody, no one has been able to explain why we have a $600 billion trade deficit.

I want to associate myself with your concerns.