Ralph Norman

This is a total travesty of this country. It is going to be hard to recover from. It is a violation of the Constitution. We have got an invasion that is taking place right before our eyes and nothing is being done about it.

I don't think this President has been to the border. I don't think the Vice President has been to the border.

We will not tolerate Mexico allowing drug trafficking organizations like the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG to pour these deadly drugs into the U.S.

It used to be, under the Trump administration, a thousand a day was alarming. Now we are having close to 585,000 people a month coming into this country.

There is not one question that has been posed to the Biden administration as to why you are not securing the border.

I find it interesting there is not one Democrat posing the question to the Biden administration...

Nothing is more important than the health of the American people.

It is outrageous what they have done.

This should not be a partisan issue because opioid abuse affects all Americans.

It is preceded only by COVID.

Let's not just talk about past litigation. Let's talk about the present and what we are going to do about it in the future.

The Biden administration has surged efforts to address this crisis.

If it were then Secretary Mayorkas should come here to testify about the crisis at the southern border.

This committee should be where the Secretary of Energy comes to testify about rising gas prices.

This committee should have him here to testify about the war in Ukraine, the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

This committee should have him here to explain why a teacher's union was allowed rewrite the CDC's school reopening guidance.

But today's hearing is not about how to end the opioid epidemic.

It is no plan. It is no plan.

If we are secure in our border, what is insecure?

Your actions prove different, Mr. Secretary.

This is an invasion of this country and under your watch you are allowing it.

I have no hope that--and I will follow decorum, Mr. Chairman. I won't say you are lying, I will just say you are untruthful. I have called for your removal, I will continue to call for it. What you are doing to this country through your…

H.R. 25, the Fair Tax Act, is the solution.

We need to completely eliminate the Internal Revenue Service as we know it and go to a completely fair tax.

If that is really an interest to all of us, then why don't we start that type of investigation with the person who says the buck stops with him, and that would be President Biden himself.