"The underlying bill classifies fentanyl as a chemical weapon, a chemical weapon."
"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."
"Given this context, there needs to be consequences, severe consequences."
"Shutting down their consulates until they no longer employ sanctioned officials seems like a weak response to unleashing chemical weapons on Americans."
"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."
"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 traff..."
"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 dr..."
"Look, I do not get what they do not get. China is not like--they didn't mix some batch of something up at the pharmaceutical plant and say, oh, we screwed this up."
"If they want it, they are getting it."
"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--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."