Dick Durbin

We must act to apply U.S. countervailing laws to non-market economies and to make exchange rate manipulation actionable under such laws.

Do we really want to stand idly by as the Chinese government manipulates its currency to give itself an unfair economic advantage in the world?

Do we really want to keep the floodgates open as unsafe Chinese products made under coercive labor conditions enter this country?

Do we really want to keep the floodgates open, as unsafe Chinese products, made under coercive labor conditions, enter this country?

And, do we really want U.S. consumer and direct investment dollars going to support Chinese sales of weapons to dangerous dictatorships around the globe?

Do we really want to stand idly by as the Chinese Government manipulates its currency, to give itself an unfair economic advantage?

America will never compromise the health and safety of our consumers and our families.

If you've listened to the testimony today, the convoluted long-term process that you have to go through to take a dangerous toy that is killing children off the shelves, you understand Government's not doing its job.

The American consumers mistakenly assume that if it's on the shelf it's safe.

I'm afraid it's not a confidence builder that your testing is really protecting me.

How would you describe the level of cooperation and compliance by Chinese manufacturers with what you consider to be normal safety standards for toys sold in America?

Do you consider it an unreasonable likelihood that a child seeing a tiny little magnet would swallow it?

Do you understand that as they were being sold with these dangerous magnets you were endangering the life of children with those toys?

What about these tiny rare earth magnets which turned out to be so dangerous for Ms. Henry's son and for Kenneth Sweet and so many others?

I don't understand that.

And so can you explain to me how a Thomas the Tank train could have lead paint on it and be sold in the United States when we have known for decades that lead ingested by children is a danger?

So you're saying that the toys that we're discussing this morning were tested through the process that you've described?

After the contamination of pet food, there's a similar effort underway with the Chinese.

You mentioned that you were entering into a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese.

And does it require timely reporting?

What is the ordinary fine? What is the range of your ordinary fine for failure to timely report a dangerous product?

And what is the penalty for failure to report on a timely basis?

It would seem to me if safety is the goal, protecting the public is the goal, that we would concede the obvious, and that is that there are many consumers in America for whom Spanish is the first language, so I'm hoping that from this…

Now, in terms of the knockoff products which look even more dangerous than the Magnetix products, now that we have established--and I won't ask you to get into our 6(b) problems again--that this is a dangerous product that needed to be…

So I'm not going to dwell on this other than to say as a lawyer I'm troubled by what you just said.