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We need to do something about it, and I think the only way is for all of us to work together.

I recently introduced the Stop Trafficking in Fentanyl Act to bring parity to the penalty regime.

What more can we do to--obviously, for those who are really driving and leading the cartels--to better stop them?

So if all of those statements could be entered for the record, I would appreciate it.

I would like to request unanimous consent to enter my prepared opening statement for the record.

Do you have a heroin problem? Well, I don't know. I say, go ask your public health officials.

HIDTA is really important and I appreciate their work here in New Hampshire.

this is a matter of life or death.

Unfortunately we hear too many stories of this happening, and just know that all of our prayers are with you and your family.

The reason we are staying above completely sinking into the abyss is because of those partnerships.

What is it that you need to increase interdiction? Is it more planes, more people? What do we need to understand?

we are asking for the ability to treat unaccompanied kids from a Central American country the same way as from contiguous countries

Well, it seems to me that if your State and local counterparts will not cooperate with Homeland Security when it comes to a situation like we saw in San Francisco, obviously there is real danger to the public on this.

In New Hampshire, we have a tremendous heroin epidemic, and previously I have heard from officials testifying before this Committee that the heroin is coming over on the land border, on the Southern Border.

there was clearly an impression at the time that somehow you could receive a permiso or pass if you made it to the United States.

This would be a more effective way to get everyone together, all working together, with the prosecution embedded?

it has outlived its purpose and that you should be given the same tools as the Secretary had previously asked us.