if we have a government that thinks that this advanced electronic data could target counterfeit goods, a fake purse is more important than stopping a poison coming into our communities, I think we have a problem of priorities.
Robert Portman
The Public Record
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?
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 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.
I appreciate the fact that in response to Senator Carper's question, the answer almost universally was more funding.
So 20 percent of these packages that are identified as suspicious are still getting through.
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.





