We should not be doing things as a Federal Government that inherently increase the cost to the people paying the bill.

When you hire activists to become bureaucrats, you are going to get none other than bureaucratic activists.

I am not naive. America is involved in a lot of things where I think it is great when we are on the side of who we believe is right, the side of freedom, the side of liberty, against tyranny, against oppression.

Agencies' actions that remove consumer choice operate on the assumption that Federal Government's unelected class knows best for its citizens.

When our founding documents say provide for the common defense, provide, that means we are going to make sure it happens and we are going to give, so to speak, the American people whatever it takes to defend them.

This is dictatorship--not by the proletarian, but dictatorship by the bureaucracy.

I thank my friend, the gentleman from Texas, for bringing up this subject. Each one of us feels maybe differently. I don't know whether people know this or not, but there is actually a United States Flag Code. There is a decorum that we…

Well, as you know, I am in the same position as you with the bill. We never thought--look, we got together, this House, Republicans stood united, passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act. We stood united, and it was supposed to get us in the room…

I hope it will be useful for Members to evaluate potential reforms to the NEA, which might be borne out of this hearing on both sides of the aisle.

If a problem, however dire, has been around for years and years and years, Congress has had a chance to legislate on that problem; and if Congress has decided that it is better not to legislate on that problem, then it is not appropriate…

It's time we look closer at the presidential powers authorized for such declarations that we have allowed to continue indefinitely.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

If they want it, they are getting it.