Steve Chabot: “The implications of these actions for the United States are substantial since we have strategic and economic interests.”

I urge my colleagues to support this bill on both sides of aisle, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers and would be willing to close at this time unless the gentleman has additional speakers. I reserve the balance of my time.

Every riot or act of violence or threat thereof taking place anywhere in this nation, whoever is responsible for it, is unconscionable and we on this side, Republicans, we reject it; we condemn it.

Now, may not be the time, despite what the Biden Administration and any of my colleagues believe, to release drug traffickers and dealers back into our communities and neighborhoods.