Sam Brownback

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

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

I hope we can--in looking forward--pass legislation to try to correct this situation, put standards in place so that people can be assured of the products they buy.

We should get very stern and clear, and hit them where it hurts. Hit them in the markets.

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

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

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

And we're going to do everything we can to stop these problems, period.

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

I hope in the appropriations process we can insert some of this language, so that we not only increase the funding for the agency, but we give it the authority necessary to fix the problem.

you do get people manipulating the marketplace

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.

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