Rob Portman

So I would just ask you to--especially the Postal Service as we go forward, we are trying to gather support for our bill because if we can stop some of this--I know it is not the only solution.

It is critical information to have.

So 20 percent of these packages that are identified as suspicious are still getting through.

I appreciate the fact that in response to Senator Carper's question, the answer almost universally was more funding.

Thank you for not just cooperation on the report but your input on the report. You and your staff made this report not just bipartisan but nonpartisan.

We have to get an urgency to this, and we have to deal with it not just about illegal drugs, but everything else that we expect to protect our borders.

To the Chairman's good question about what could the Chinese do, how about prosecuting these two individuals who you all have indicted?

We are committed to aggressively an increasing AED for packages coming into the United States in order to improve the targeting of illicit drugs and other contraband.

They have a growing problem of opioid addiction.

We are not coordinating well. We are not doing what we should be doing.

I think that it is absolutely critical that USTR be on the front lines trying to reduce barriers to American exports in other countries.

I hope that you will, in this job, be willing to open even more markets for our farmers and our service providers and our manufacturers.

Sometimes the administration--I am concerned that there is too much criticism of trade agreements, when in fact trade agreements are not really the issue.

I think it is really important that you continue to hold firm on our position and keep the Europeans on board too.

It is crazy to me that there is a cap of 16 beds on some of the really good, successful residential treatment programs in Ohio.

Destabilizing behavior I think is the part that we missed, and look what has happened in the last several years with regard to Hezbollah in Syria in particular but also as we see in Yemen and elsewhere.

I do believe that we ought to give the President and the administration the space to be able to negotiate what could be an historic agreement.

We need to be clear-eyed about what the challenges are. We certainly, based on experience, cannot be trusting of what North Korea says.

First, I congratulate the Nebraska women's volleyball team and say I was proud to be here on the floor to be one of those who did not object to this wonderful resolution just offered by my colleagues from Nebraska. ____________________

It is an impossible management situation, to manage that many people, just spread all over hell's half acre.

As it turns out it is not [a crazy idea]. The General Services Administration figured out a way to save a lot of money.

One of the things on the high-risk list forever has been property, real property management, and that is an area where we have made pretty good progress.

I thank the chairman for that clarification and appreciate his outstanding leadership and work on this historic tax reform measure.

First of all, I was referring specifically to a CBO report earlier, and the Senator talked about the Joint Committee on Taxation. We may have different views on that. It wasn't my belief I was expressing; it was me talking about the…

Exactly. So that is the number--let's say roughly $400 billion--that they have. By the way, there are 137 economists who tell us that it will be not $400 billion, but it will be $1 trillion. This is their quote. Their letter came out…