The United States has essentially given China carte blanche to open up its capital markets.

I think the Chinese claim that they are playing the game the way it should be played.

I think the people who benefit most from corporate takeovers... millions of jobs have been eliminated.

The United States must maintain currency vigilance.

We should make elimination of China's excess production capacity a priority in bilateral negotiations.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to wish Mr. Ryan Ziem's American Government students at Arnold High School the very best luck in their upcoming advanced placement exam. I visited these students last fall, and I was impressed by their articulate…

China's control of the market, however, enabled them in 2010 to restrict rare earth exports by 40 percent and cut off supplies to Japan over territorial disputes.

They need to be held accountable.

The nature of this regime in Khartoum is that they kill their own people.

On the issue of humanitarian access, particularly in the two areas, to my knowledge, Khartoum has not allowed a single piece of humanitarian assistance into the two areas.

This is an utter capitulation to China in return for basically nothing and certainly nothing that has made us safer.

We are told it doesn't matter. Well, it does, because every billion dollar trade deficit translates into losing 10,000 jobs.

China is an emerging threat to the United States and an emerging threat to people who want to live at peace in the world.

I look forward to gaining the information to where we can come up with policies that stick.

Part of that bill turns some responsibility over to the Marshals Service to rescue those kidnapped victims who are going to be trafficked.

I hope that we can work together on this important issue and work on any legislative fixes necessary to ensure that Jenna's Act is enforced.

Since last year, I have raised these concerns on numerous occasions.

I am extremely concerned with recent reports describing the horrific conditions and loss of life during the interstate transportation of prisoners by private companies.