Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Greenberg, I hope you'll work with us on statutory authority, that I hope we can put in the appropriations bill and that the authorizing committee will agree with, so we can move that through rapidly, so that…
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Chairman, I want to hear you say, 'These products are not going to enter our stores.'
Do you believe you need the authority to enforce these standards that you've articulated?
there is this sense that there's been this huge wave of products flowing into the United States
If you need more statutory authority--and you've said you'll ask us for that. You should use it like a club.
I think that we ought to do here. Until we are sure that the system has changed and won't produce the same sort of products that we've seen.
It's time to end the status quo, the business as usual relationship with China.
"I think it's fair to say that an open and transparent system of government, like ours, is less likely to produce defective products."
"Unfortunately, as some others have already noted, 'Made in China' has now become a warning label."
Shoddy, defective and dangerous products being made in China and sold to American consumers has simply got to stop.
And also push the Chinese Government, whether through communications through you and certainly through communications from our Government that we will not tolerate these problems in our products.





