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

this is a matter of life or death.

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

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

I am really worried about, we have these foreign fighters that have gone to obviously Syria, Iraq, Yemen.

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

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

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

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

The hearing record will remain open for 15 days until September 29 at 5 p.m. for the submission of statements and questions for the record.

I think that will be important.

What's your perspective, Mr. Bunce? Is it easier to deal with the European regulators and are we falling behind overall with this?

I just had a couple of follow up questions.

So it's really on their end. We've already certified and they just need to validate.

I want to thank all of you. I agree with Senator Cantwell. This is so important to our competitiveness and our ability to innovate going forward.

We hope you guys can move it as fast as you can because 17 seems a long way away given what we hoped and how quickly this would happen.

The government should not be a roadblock either real or perceived to a safer more efficient aerospace industry.

I am glad to cosponsor this effort. I was just at a New Hampshire company, New Hampshire Ball Bearing, recently and, you know, they are a supplier who benefits from Ex-Im Bank financing.