Our duty is to ensure that your agencies, funded by this subcommittee, are provided the resources needed to do an excellent job in this field to enforce our existing trade laws.

For that reason alone, we should be more aggressive in collecting duties we are rightly owed.

I think there is a bigger discussion about whether the current system... can be effectively used.

Do you have an estimate of, in your view, having done this review, of what our gap is?

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as we all know, has many roles as it protects our country's security, including our economic security, which is sometimes in this Department overlooked.

A critically underappreciated aspect of the Department's economic security role is enforcement of our Nation's trade laws.

I think that is one of the things that Senator Coats and I really want to get to the bottom of in this hearing.

Is our liquidation process working or not working?

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join with the American people to protect Medicare. It's pretty simple. The Republicans, if they had their way, it would mean a catastrophic end to the program and it would deep-six protections for seniors and…

There could soon be criminal charges against former Senator John Edwards over payments he made to his mistress, Rielle Hunter, who worked for his campaign.

the government's theory is wrong and says his client did not break the law.

I rise in opposition to the underlying bill. Madam Chair, Republicans have returned to the Hill after a hard week at work in our districts really trying to explain away the plan to dismantle Medicare to their constituents. But I want to…

Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.

I think you raise some important points, especially about after-the-fact and audits.

I want to make the statement that, yes, we have a tax gap.

this Committee has an obligation to examine all of the causes of the tax gap.

At a time of record level Federal deficits, the last thing the government can afford is to be hemorrhaging tens of billions of dollars in improper payments.

I want to thank all the witnesses for being here today, and providing testimony.