Water is for fighting.

Like many of my colleagues, I am concerned by the great opioid epidemic that is sweeping our Nation. Every day more than 78 Americans die from opioid overdoses--78 Americans. Think about that. That is more than three every hour. Nearly 2…

Anything we could do to encourage this kind of student interchange has a long-term impact on the foreign policy.

I look forward to discussing today how CBP will do its part to implement those policies as quickly and as effectively as possible.

This is absolutely essential if we want American companies to be able to compete effectively in the 21st-century global marketplace.

Passage of the MTB bill is long overdue and I'm very pleased that we've finally gotten it through Congress and over to the President for his signature.

A lot has happened since then, so we are happy to have the Commissioner here again today.

The Finance Committee, and in fact the entire Congress, has been extremely active on trade over the past year and a half.

The committee will come to order. I would like to welcome everyone to our hearing this morning.

Thank you again, Mr. Chairman, for convening this hearing.

Thank you, Commissioner Kerlikowske, for being here today.

I'd like to welcome everyone to today's hearing to consider pending nominations.

If Congress is serious about job creation, then Congress should either authorize funding or raise immigration and custom user fees to hire the additional 2,107 CBP Officers as identified by CBP's own Workload Staffing Model.

I predict that there are more bombshells in his tax returns.

We simply cannot fail. We simply cannot kick the can down the road. The time to act is now.

Your local letter carrier is going to far more understand that there aren't 15 people living in this house.

The time now is to act.

It is time to do it sooner rather than later.