John Thune actually said...

"Our bill also includes a sense of Congress calling on USTR to encourage other nations to follow our example by also improving their de minimis thresholds."

"Well, there was a statement made over the weekend that whether the laws were broken was irrelevant."

"And so the reporting about the giving of this information to ProPublica, release of confidential information, could very well be a violation of law?"

"I think the American people believe that this is a very serious matter for both those reasons."