Tom Carper: “That ongoing support that this body continues to provide CBP on the overall drug mission is absolutely critical.”

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

I ask to be recognized, and I am pleased to be here with you today. I rise today in strong support of critical bipartisan legislation that will come to the Senate floor--not later this year, later this week, or this month, but later today…

To have vacancies that may be not just months, but in some cases years to that have been filled, that justice delayed is justice denied.

No. The bill simply allows the Secretaries of Energy and State to explore pathways to grant generally authorized status to countries other than having 123 agreements in place. The bill does not relieve those Secretaries of their statutory…