Sam Brownback

We can't just talk about it, that's why I talk about bringing the club out.

There is this sense that there's been this huge wave of products flowing into the United States

Do you believe you need the authority to enforce these standards that you've articulated?

We're going to start shutting all of these down.

Would you like to have people in China--do you think that is important?

If you need any additional legislative authority from us to do it, let us know.

And that that's what you're going to enforce.

But isn't it best to say, 'Look, if there is any lead in any of these products, the products don't enter America, period.'

Chairman, I want to hear you say, 'These products are not going to enter our stores.'

It's time to end the status quo, the business as usual relationship with China.

Shoddy, defective and dangerous products being made in China and sold to American consumers has simply got to stop.

Unfortunately, as some others have already noted, 'Made in China' has now become a warning label.

I firmly believe that the problems we're now seeing with Chinese-made toys and other consumer products is just a symptom of a much larger problem that must be dealt with in a swift and vigorous way.

I think it's fair to say that an open and transparent system of government, like ours, is less likely to produce defective products.

Sam Brownback made his apology on the phone. He called Mitt Romney to say, sorry about that forwarded e-mail from an interest group asking help fact-checking negative statements about Mormonism.

I'd put forward an alternative flat tax and allow people to choose between the current tax coding system, which doesn't work, which ought to be taken behind the barn and killed with a dull ax, and alternate flat tax and let them choose.

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