You talk about going to the source of the problem. Why is it that there are literally thousands, I am told, of chemical companies in China producing this stuff that is killing American citizens?

this is a crisis, and it is getting worse, not better, and there are State actors involved as well as individual hackers.

we want to be sure that our legislative initiatives are being implemented rapidly before more people die.

My sense is that cocaine production is increasing fairly dramatically in Colombia right now, of course, coming into Venezuela, where most of that country I think is now in the hands of narco-traffickers, essentially, coming up through…

What people do not know is the role that fentanyl has played: a 4,000-percent increase in fentanyl overdose deaths in my home State in the last 5 years alone.

Will you commit today to rapidly implement that legislation, working with the post office, to be sure we do not continue to have people who are dying from this disease who do not have to die because we are just allowing this flow of…

The national security exception is to protect and preserve the national security. That is its sole purpose.

I do think with regard to steel, you can make an argument that, as to certain countries and certain products, there is a national security issue.

The Trade Security Act is a bipartisan bill, and it is trying to make good on those words of that chair of the Ways and Means Committee: let us focus on national security.

I think we have to be very careful here, particularly with regard to our allies, because national security is ultimately about us having a concern about enemies, not allies.

I think there is actually some consensus building around what I consider the misuse of section 232.