CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2018: on Technology

Chrissy Houlahan: We need to prioritize a big infrastructure bill

REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT DAN CRENSHAW (R-TX-2): There's multiple points-- opioids, infrastructure issues. Different infrastructure issues around the country--but for us it's flood mitigation. The opioid epidemic is terrible. More people died of opioids last year than the entire Vietnam War.

REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT CHRISSY HOULAHAN (D-PA-6): Yep. I agree. Opioids is an enormous problem in our community as well. And a big infrastructure bill--

Q: Is that number one for you?

HOULAHAN: Absolutely.

CRENSHAW: And another thing I would bring up is workforce training issues. You know there are seven million job openings, which is a great problem to have. But we need middle skill labor to fill those jobs.

HOULAHAN: Yep.

Marco Rubio: When Chinese companies steal I.P., put them out of business

RUBIO: The president views ZTE as a company that broke sanctions, and he wants to impose sanctions on them and penalties that are stronger than anyone has ever seen before.

Q: A $1.3 billion fine, he said.

RUBIO: Yes, correct. And this was just a company that did something wrong and needed to be punished, the president is right. The difference is, I don't view this just as a ZTE issue. I view it in the broader context that China that is trying to steal all of our intellectual property. And there has to be consequences for that. And the only thing China is going to respond to is consequential actions over a sustained period of time, like putting a company like ZTE out of business.