Scott Perry

If government officials are involved, we need to ensure that we have the ability to sanction them as well, especially considering how much money we spend purportedly helping Mexico fight the war on drugs.

This amendment simply ensures that this legislation would not simply and only apply to those in the Chinese government, but any government official of any other foreign country or foreign opioid traffickers.

This amendment would require the president to shut down the consulates of Mexico should any Mexican government officials be subject to sanctions created under this bill.

This amendment would add a sense of Congress that Mexico's failure to stop fentanyl from China has led to a public emergency in the United States.

Shutting down their consulates until they no longer employ sanctioned officials seems like a weak response to unleashing chemical weapons on Americans.

Given this context, there needs to be consequences, severe consequences.

This means those sanctioned by this bill are not just smuggling drugs. They are smuggling chemical weapons into the United States for the purposes of unleashing them on our constituents.

The underlying bill classifies fentanyl as a chemical weapon, a chemical weapon.

This statement is reprehensible and shows just how little the Mexican president... understands or cares.

We are a bunch of rubes paying these people to kill our kids, destroy our country.

This amendment strikes a section of the bill that gives the president the unilateral ability to waive any sanctions for humanitarian purposes.

Let no one in the audience or the world think that I am not for the underlying purpose of this bill. My issue with the bill is it does not go nearly far enough in prosecuting what is happening in our country.

We got to address this, and quit playing politics with it, and say that was a wrong thing for any government to do on behalf of the health of the American people.

We are not really stopping any--I mean, appreciably--it is less than 1 percent, right? It is--we are not really stopping any technology in a meaningful sort of getting into the CCP.

I think it is safe to say that the CCP gets their hands on any technology they want, if it has come from America, or anywhere else for that matter, into the hands of a Chinese corporation.

We are not really stopping any technology in a meaningful sort of getting into the CCP.

If they want it, they are getting it.

I just want to encourage this committee and this institution and this country and the entire free world to employ what Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to as the arsenal of democracy, to ensure that not only does Ukraine survive but…

It is going to be hard for any of us to hold the sovereign nation of Russia or its leader accountable. We need to try and do that.

I thank the chairman and would echo his gratitude for the staff. There are long nights and a lot of details to be worked through. To get these things right, we rely on folks that oftentimes are more the experts than we are. We sure…

Again, this is about using wartime powers, and we haven't declared war. Mr. Chair, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Westerman), the chairman of the full committee.

I thank the chairman for his comments. Again, the provision also exists. All we are saying is that we should be able to--the American people--should be able to follow the money. If there is a report that says this is where the money came…

I urge support of the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 33 Offered by…

I thank my colleague from the other side of aisle that we are finally willing to get together, Democrats and Republicans, and be tough on the Communist Party of China. Mr. Chair, I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from…

I have an amendment at the desk as approved by the Committee on Rules. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of section 20209, insert the following: (d)…