Trade agreements need to bulldoze the trade barriers and open new markets to exports made by America's middle class--the...
There will be strong labor and environmental protections in the core of the agreement.
Now, you and I have discussed this before, and I think it would be helpful if you could address the question of whether ...
Today's global economy seems to move at a million miles an hour, so clinging to yesterday's outdated trade policies is a...
American trade enforcers have to keep at it, because China and other governments will not stop trying to get around the ...
For example, we may be willing to open our market to more dairy goods from Australia and New Zealand, but only if Japan'...
Past trade agreements haven't always lived up to the hype.
I appreciate that not all the 14--or the 12 countries are on the same page, environmentally.
I think it would be helpful--it would help every single Member here, and I think we ought to just clear that way.
This is a huge reason why we have lost manufacturing jobs in this country.
My own view is that that kind of approach is a particularly poor fit for an economy where two-thirds of the economic act...
For Oregon's middle class, moving the recovery from a walk to a run comes down to the five T's.
You cannot have big-league economic growth with little league infrastructure.
I am not going to accept turning those rural communities into sacrifice zones where we just write them off.
Nobody this weekend said the answer was just safety net programs.
We think that is the kind of thing that can help raise paychecks.
How is this going to grow that paycheck?
Labor markets and a healthy economy are of paramount importance to the health, happiness and well-being of all Americans...