Chair rogers the chair recognizes the Ranking Member of the committee, miss delauro. Ms. Delauro delighted you are here this morning. What i wanted to look at is the issue of crime, if you will, and trade. D. O. J. Plays a Critical Role in deterring crime through robust investigations, prosecutions, incarcerations, and the application of penalties. My concern about d. O. J. That there may be some serious blind spots. Lack of resources in critical areas. Particular, the u. S. International trade enforcement. Example, 2022, u. S. Imports were 3. 27 trillion. Conservative estimates based on available data from Economic Policy institute projected 5 to 10 of those imports were fraudulent. This means that there is annually 163 of the 327 billion in illegal trade which impacts u. S. Workers, manufacturers, consumers, and our free trade partners. I understand d. O. J. s infrastructure to combat trade crimes is lightly resourced. 2022 u. S. Customs and Border Protection collected 19. 4 million
We need to wear them off on many of the roads because of the heavy construction dust. You do reward and residential or develop heavy construction laws within 2 weeks, these mountains and because of, for drilling and sand lining, lance lights have become a big issue here. Indigenous methods of construction could be a way out of this. Flat ground for building homes isnt easy to find here and how much of a dish and yet settlements start the mountains all the way up to and on to do to a full 1000 meters in the to this down of not good would work a whole but im talk about it is what were seeing, the construction of a home, but locally source materials, i think im looking up and the methods to build it by the same as those you buy generations before him. I dont let it go to measure length though does isnt, it will make next then was it was one of the 8 of the continent layers. Youll see the one in the looking would be certainly going to give us give last month and talk with the sleep 1st and
Chair rogers the chair recognizes the Ranking Member of the committee, miss delauro. Ms. Delauro delighted you are here this morning. What i wanted to look at is the issue of crime, if you will, and trade. D. O. J. Plays a Critical Role in deterring crime through robust investigations, prosecutions, incarcerations, and the application of penalties. My concern about d. O. J. That there may be some serious blind spots. Lack of resources in critical areas. Particular, the u. S. International trade enforcement. Example, 2022, u. S. Imports were 3. 27 trillion. Conservative estimates based on available data from Economic Policy institute projected 5 to 10 of those imports were fraudulent. This means that there is annually 163 of the 327 billion in illegal trade which impacts u. S. Workers, manufacturers, consumers, and our free trade partners. I understand d. O. J. s infrastructure to combat trade crimes is lightly resourced. 2022 u. S. Customs and Border Protection collected 19. 4 million
Of the european union, because in fact the eu has not yet taken care of military affairs, and as far as we know , one of the obstacles in this case remains the position of hungary. Of the european union, joseph borel, said that he hopes to resolve and approve the settlement this issue, perhaps the most remarkable feature of these ministerial meetings in luxembourg was that the issue of ukraine was in second place on the draft agenda, after the issue of the war against israel against hamas, despite european representatives emphasized that they do not forget ukraine, and in particular, the representative of lithuania emphasized this. We cannot forget about ukraine, where the situation is not the easiest, we see a renewed russian offensive, this reminds us that the russians waiting for situations where we Pay Attention to something else, so they can resume their attacks. I hope that with the help of funding, we will be able to send a message that europe is committed to defining the defens
Km wide. The Main Intelligence Agency says that they knew about the russians plans. Well, you see footage from vovchansk, why did the Kharkiv Region become the target of the russians . Analysts believe that this is how they are trying to draw Ukrainian Forces away from other areas of the front, and also to create a buffer zone for the protection of bielgorod. By the way, Vladimir Putin also spoke about the buffer zone. According to experts, russia was preparing for this offensive. And pulled about 30,000 troops to the border, and what about the advance of the russians it became possible, we will also talk about it a little later, but for now we will look at the situation in vovchansk, a city that was under Russian Occupation in 2022, and which they are trying to capture again. The bbcs Jonathan Beale has returned from there. The road to russia, only a few kilometers from the border, and evidence that the russians have again. Returned to the Kharkiv Region. The city of vovchansk was lib