Jim Sensenbrenner

H.R. 3668, sponsored by Mr. Meehan and Ms. Sanchez, enhances the penalties for trafficking in, or attempting to traffic, counterfeit drugs.

This bill increases penalties for stealing, embezzling, and fraudulently obtaining medical products in the interstate of foreign commerce.

These bills set and increase the penalties for stealing, embezzling and fraudulently obtaining medical products in interstate or foreign commerce.

My hope is that this hearing will reveal those issues and identify areas which may require legislative action.

There is no evidence that the serious problems we are seeking to address result from a lack of laws or penalties.

We have more and higher penalties for crime than any nation on earth.

The Safe Doses Act enhances penalties for those who traffic in counterfeit, adulterated, or stolen medical products.

We keep doing the same thing hoping for different results.

I cannot support the measure in its current form.

I think we all agree that the CBP needs to do better targeting to be able to spot the contraband that is trying to be imported into the United States.

Counterfeit and stolen merchandise constitute a danger to the public that is not readily evident.

Well, in my high school civics class, I learned in a democratic society that laws that are passed by a majority vote of the legislature and signed either by the President or the governor are the law.

I think the privacy issues are severe, and I think that this adds to the opposition to this massive plague of voter ID laws.

Okay. Now, my final question is there has been a disconnect between DHS and the states, both in this Administration and in the Bush Administration on this subject.

Well, the law was signed in 2005 by former President Bush. Did it take DHS 6 years to start doing the guidance and now we are about ready to get to it?

I would be happy to invite her, and I invite the gentleman from Michigan to help us prod her into following the law that was passed.

I believe it is not effective at this time.

I think one of the ways to get the ball over the goal on this--and I realize as the author of the bill that this is a complicated bill--is, first of all, states need guidance.

Is DHS going to extend the deadline again?

I have experienced in the 30 years that I have been on this Committee is that NASA always seems to have cost overruns on everything.

This is a very serious issue. It is one that needs to be addressed, and it needs to be addressed in the proper manner.

Mandatory minimums have been proven to be a waste of the taxpayers' money, and violate common sense, when compared to traditional sentencing.

What has proven to work best to address drug abuse, in general, including prescription drug abuse are evidence-based solutions aimed at preventing drug abuse addiction, injury, and death.

Well, sir, you know, with all due respect, there is a silver bullet and it is going right in the wallet of the American consumer with the doubling of the price of gas on this Administration's watch.

When is this Administration going to end the lockup increasing production on federal land?