Steve Rothman: “And we were only inspecting 5 percent of the containers. That was the Republican majority's policy. They were in charge.…”

“And we were only inspecting 5 percent of the containers. That was the Republican majority's policy. They were in charge. They made the rule. The majority rules, and they won. We said in the House Appropriations Committee, we said to our colleagues, our Republican friends, if we cut $5,000 from the 80 or $100,000 tax cut, 80 or $100,000 tax cut, depending how much money these folks make, if we just take 5,000 from the 80,000 we are sending them, we could triple the number of containers we inspect from 5 percent to 15 percent. And do you know what every single one of my Republican colleague on the House Appropriations Committee did? They voted against it. And I went to them and I said hey, man, what are you doing? I have nothing against people who are worth a fortune. This isn't class warfare. Do you want to give it to them, or do you want to spend it on inspecting our containers coming into the port? And they said, we are story, Steve. This was the President's directive.”