"It is cartels who ought to be gone after on an international level and gone after in the most severe way."
"We could lock him up 1,000 times. But what we used to call the old French connection, the people who control the drugs, the international cartels continue to do what they want to do."
"Do you concur with DEA's assessment that virtually all the deadly fentanyl found in the United States is mass produced by transnational criminal organizations?"
"We have significantly increased the ability of law enforcement to be able to do that."
"Don't you think it would be a better use of Department of Justice's prosecutorial efforts, instead of retaliating against whistleblowers or investigating parents at school board meetings, to coordinat..."
"So, we are seeing huge increases in the number of drugs being stopped at the border."
"I salute the Administration's work on reducing the supply coming in with all of these great new technologies."
"We should be doing whatever we can do to try to get China to crack down on the supply of these chemicals."
"At least 70 percent of the firearms that are being used by the fentanyl traffickers in Mexico come from the United States."
"The drug overdose crisis is one of the most urgent issues our Nation faces."
"We know that foreign bad actors, like the Chinese Communist Party, are taking actions to hurt our Nation through the fentanyl trade."
"And that is the reason I have introduced H.R. 920, The Caribbean Border Counternarcotics Strategy Act."