Opening Statement of Hon. Jeff Merkley, a U.S. Senator from Oregon; Chair, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
The administration needs to be engaged now before barriers like this are fully in place.
The Canadians then undermined that commitment with new regulatory barriers before USMCA went officially into effect last...
I will not accept that.
Fortunately, the Biden administration is addressing all the outstanding issues so that USMCA lives up to all its promise...
It means vigorous enforcement. It means never cutting corners the way the previous administration did on USMCA.
I hope the Canadian Government changes course on this issue, otherwise the U.S. will need to consider all options for it...
We see China as a very significant abuser of fisheries all around the world.
That effort requires transparency.
I hope--and I press this case to the Canadians--that they change course on the issue. Otherwise, the United States will ...
Unfortunately, the administration would not listen. It was the middle of the year, and in effect they decided that a cak...
The Democrats got down to work improving it, and as a result of those efforts, the text of it was the strongest trade ag...
The administration's efforts on that front are fairly disappointing.
Now it is up to the Biden administration to clean up the messes that I am going to outline now, that the Trump administr...
One of the achievements of USMCA was to bring NAFTA into the 21st century.
Make no mistake about it. These unfair digital daggers are just knifing American firms and the prospects for creating al...
I hope our former House colleague and now FMC Chairman, Dan Maffei, can give us an update on any recommendations which m...
We must recognize that the devastating heat dome disproportionately affected vulnerable communities, like the low-income...
