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Last month, as a result of countless hours of work by this committee, Congress passed and the President signed a 6-year CHIP extension.

Before I begin, I want to express on behalf of the committee the sadness we all feel in light of yesterday's events in Florida.

There are a whole lot of other people that benefit from that and maybe they should be asked to help support that at the same time.

We are going to work with you to see what we can do by April 4.

What we need to do is make sure that we give flexibility for access. Access has to be critical.

Sometimes we make a decision that if we are giving Homeland Security the ability of making these kinds of decisions on local communities, aren't we already doing that with the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture?

That is where the east-west access becomes critical.

To do that, you need different kinds of access points, one at the border wall, one further up there, further up again.

The Committee's legislation will finally take the handcuffs off the agents and allow us to simply do our jobs.

I would like to commend the Subcommittee, Chairman Bishop, and Congressman Johnson, for your work in crafting reform language that has been included in H.R. 4760, Securing America's Future Act.

I would like to close by urging Congress to consider and pass legislation that would solve these very real problems.

The law should not operate as an arbitrage between which Federal agency you appear in front of.

I want to thank you for the opportunity to appear here today. It is my distinct pleasure to introduce Joe Simons as nominee for Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.

Let there be no mistake: this is an excellent package, and it deserves bipartisan support.

Joe Simons is just the man this moment requires.

A free enterprise economy will reach its full potential only so long as institutions like the FTC keep our markets free, fair, and competitive.

The United States is the economic marvel of the world.

And, by and large, we are seeing great things from tax reform.