Tim Kaine

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and thanks for kicking off our 118th Congress meetings of the Budget Committee with this important topic and thank you to the witnesses.

Overdose suggests you were taking something and maybe you took too much, but actually it is accidental.

We have a bipartisan urgency to deal with this crisis and it is frustrating to me that in this hearing a lot of folks want to try to levy other issues that are not central to dealing with this scourge.

One the things I like as sort of a little virtuous competition in the innovation space.

We will expect about 2,500 fentanyl deaths this year.

I want to thank the CBP agents. When you look at the amount that has been interdicted either at the border by CBP agents or by the HIDTA task forces internally, you want to thank those folks.

If we close our southern border, stop fentanyl from coming across, we could end the devastation and the tragedy that is being experienced by so many American families.

If he had an hour of time right now and he had to choose between putting handcuffs on someone or doing public awareness, right now he would do public awareness.

We have to do more and technology is one way of doing more, but the truth of the matter is until we close our border this issue continues.

We need to use every foreign policy tool we have to stop the flow of fentanyl into our country.

I believe, Senator, as I sit here that the cartels are acting with deliberate, calculated treachery.

I doubt Xi Jinping cares about his chemical and pharmaceutical industry supplying the Mexican cartels that are flooding the United States with fentanyl.

We should be able to invest more in ports of entry to get a lot more fentanyl before it crosses the border.

That is why I co-authored the Fentanyl Sanctions Act with Senator Schumer in 2019.

I am urging the Biden administration to take additional steps to confront the fentanyl epidemic.

There is a famous saying that if you are not at the table; you are on the menu.

There has to be a sense that other diplomatic efforts with China all have to involve saying this transgression against people in the U.S. is a red line.

There has to be a sense that other diplomatic efforts with China all have to involve saying this transgression against people in the U.S. is a red line.

I have introduced bipartisan legislation with Senator Coons and the aim is to allow the United States to quickly appropriate tangible assistance.

The title of today's hearing is 'Evaluating U.S.-China Policy in an Era of Strategic Competition,' and I think we all know the competition is intense across multiple fronts and in many areas it is more than competition. China is an…

I do not see how we can tolerate a relationship in which the Chinese are targeting American citizens.

I was proud to contribute to, support, and vote for Chairman Menendez's law in the FY23 NDAA known as the Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act.

The title of today's hearing is 'Evaluating U.S.-China Policy in an Era of Strategic Competition,' and I think we all know the competition is intense across multiple fronts and in many areas it is more than competition. China is an…

The Chinese do--actually have imprisoned a number of the family members of American residents who have advocated for Uyghur human rights.

I do not see how we can tolerate a relationship in which the Chinese are targeting American citizens.