Hal Rogers

We are not out to keep China down. But we don't look for anybody to dominate the region and certainly not anybody to push the United States out.

It is simply disingenuous.

Of the 2.5 million Americans who need treatment for opioid use disorders, less than 1 million are receiving it. That is a serious problem, and we have got to do something about it.

I mean there is a lot of money that is being circulated in their country before it is caught on to be counterfeiting elsewhere.

Everyday the FBI is on the razor's edge in protecting our homeland from extremism.

That rule is expected to destroy over 280,000 jobs in Appalachia and elsewhere.

I have said many times and I have heard you say it many times that there is no one answer to the problem, that it does take enforcement, treatment and education, a holistic approach.

I have heard from law enforcement people around the country about the importance of that very flexible grant program to their crime prevention and drug enforcement activities.

They want to meet. They want input. But they cannot do it until you send them the documents that back up your claim.

We lose a hundred Americans every day to abuse.

the stream protection rule that I referred to has been a boondoggle wrought with controversy from day one.

If we want to see any further success in treating victims of abuse and educating the public about the danger that is present, I think that we have got to be sure that enforcement on the front end is emphasized and in fact ironclad.

I am deeply disappointed by the efforts to ratchet down border security and enforcement of our immigration laws.

Thank you very much. Thanks for the recognition of a former life. But I enjoyed my, enjoy is not the word, I appreciated the time that I served as DA and law enforcement.

I am interested in action to get something done.

The budget you have put before us requests $2 billion in new mandatory funding, making this budget effectively DOA.

I wonder if you could talk to us about why you believe the Obama administration and the Department of Commerce believe it is a good idea for the Chinese to have a say in how the Internet is administered.

We all have a keen interest in protecting the integrity of the Internet.

We cannot and will not even consider a budget request that would ask this Congress to cut NASA's funding.

So it is important that we focus on the realities that we will actually be able to handle this year in our tight budget environment, and recognize that we are simply not going to be raising taxes on the American people.

The Department of Commerce has overseen that, and we have put very specific language in last year's bill and in the 2016 bill prohibiting the transfer of that responsibility out of the Department of Commerce.

I was proud to support him in that effort to protect the agencies under the jurisdiction of this subcommittee from cyber attacks by the Chinese.

I cannot imagine anyone in this Congress seriously considering it.

We are not going to let that happen.

So it is very disappointing and frustrating to see the increase that the administration has recommended through you to this subcommittee includes $2 billion in new mandatory spending that are simply not going to happen, and as Chairman…