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The restrictions used to fight the virus are also used to fight democracy, including by limiting protests, delaying elections, and implementing a press of state-sponsored censorship.

The ongoing pandemic has given opportunistic leaders another excuse to grab power and suppress their own citizens' fundamental freedoms and human rights.

We still have the first light bulbs that were lit by nuclear energy.

The lab changed the world when it developed the first reactor.

Americans deserve to sell their products and need access to that huge foreign marketplace.

Ms. Tai, you must make the President understand that trade is a domestic priority for hundreds of millions of Americans.

Free trade does not just strengthen the powerful; it empowers all Americans, including those running and working in smaller businesses.

I look forward to hearing more from you, Ms. Tai, regarding how you would use your experience to engage the numerous challenges facing the United States, if confirmed as USTR.

I will be brief. I again want to also thank you, Ms. Tai, for your willingness to serve.

Mexico appears to be discriminating against U.S. businesses to favor its state-owned oil and gas giant Pemex.

We need to preserve our leadership in this field.

I am very concerned about getting a much stronger focus on IP protection in our U.S. trade negotiations and activities.

Mexico is maintaining or enacting new restrictions on the U.S. that lack any scientific justification.

The importance of fair trade, and the price of it being denied, is also well understood by the people of Idaho.

Put plainly, the United States does not just lose potential opportunities when its leaders fail to engage appropriately on trade.

This is why the U.S. needs an effective USTR to tear down trade barriers and confront abusive trade practices.

We cannot let the 750,000 jobs in the lumber industry or the 420 million acres of family-owned timberlands be threatened by unfair subsidies.

Free trade does not just strengthen the powerful, it empowers all Americans, including those running and working in smaller businesses.