Ron Kirk: “The exclusion of U.S. beef from the Asian market, as you know, over the last 8 years has been crippling to our beef…”

I think, provides us a unique opportunity to have market access for all American exporters in what is going to be, by the estimates of all economists, the major center for economic growth over the next ten to 15 years, and that is the…

Again, the first step would be for us to recognize that our granting Russia permanent normal trade status is decidedly in our interest.

We frustrate our own efforts when our visa laws are so--can be so restrictive that it makes it difficult to support our underlying ambition to sell more around the world.

Let me state unequivocally that the deal on the table is insufficient and unbalanced from the perspective of Congress.