Fred Upton: “I want to thank Chairman Pitts for his leadership on this issue and want to welcome today's witnesses.”

It is really sad on an important issue like this.

At a time when we are seeing the highest rates ever--100,000 folks, man, in 2020--it is so disturbing that the administration seems to be favoring weakening penalties for drug traffickers.

He took the Trump playbook and hit a home run as it related to the Trump view.

Well, he's on the tap lift, the short five, I guess you could call it. I don't think the things that he said back in 2016, maybe 2017 really matter much. He's a MAGA Republican.