We are not going to sacrifice our principles on trafficking.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Maybe we can have Mrs. McCain be an honorary senior staff member of the committee so she can sit in on these discussions.

So, it needs to be consistently on the agenda.

It is simply unconscionable that we would allow slave-made goods into the United States of America.

I am concerned when I see Malaysia, for example, that there is no way that anybody is going to convince me that they deserve to be upgraded.

I cannot imagine why we would not begin to include slavery as one of those conditionalities that we really think about.

I appreciate Senator Cardin working to make sure that the TIP Report...needs to be inviolate.

We should be outraged that nothing is being done to actually protect these fish.

It's simply about trying to score political points and pursuing an agenda my Republican colleagues have pursued for many years.

I think it's safe to say we're now officially in election season.

this hearing is not about looking at the actual facts, it is about trying to score political points pursuing an agenda that my Republican colleagues have pursued for many years now

The Central Valley Project Improvement Act did not affect any state water rights.

I think we need to all be very careful about the facts on a subject as potentially loaded as California water.

I will never trivialize those issues.

I want to urge everyone to be careful and precise when we talk about this subject.

Porterville, East Porterville, is an environmental justice tragedy and a disgrace.

It affects you and me, too, doesn't it? Okay. So the longer we wait to do reform, the greater impact on jobs, right?

we are now officially in election season. Like election years past, today we are having a partisan one-sided hearing aimed at bashing the Administration