"Currency manipulation is costing our workers jobs, and it needs to be stopped."
"It is time for that to change, and changing means charting a new manufacturing strategy which will strengthen our economy and help create new jobs and new opportunities."
"For the free enterprise system to really flourish and thrive, it needs to be sensibly but lightly regulated."
"Dual eligibles, those individuals who are eligible for both the Medicare and Medicaid programs, are one of our sickest, poorest, most costly and most vulnerable populations."
"We have got to address it now."
"I think it is also calling upon us to increase the NIH research budget so that we can find a cure."
"By the time all the baby boomers have it, 15 billion, the bill for Alzheimer's will equal the defense budget."
"Of course, banks are afraid to make loans, because of the regulators hanging over their shoulders."
"They're forcing a major American company to spend millions of dollars and put thousands of jobs on hold for what is an unprecedented violation of a company's ability to locate an expansion facility an..."
"Thousands of jobs, probably billions of dollars of investment, are being sidetracked in the telecommunications business, because the FCC is violating Congressional direction and court orders to move a..."
"One thing the Constitution says is that the Federal Government should facilitate interstate commerce. The last thing we're doing right now at the Federal level is encouraging commerce."
"Central to the mission of the Commerce Department... is the vitally important job of encouraging economic growth and job creation."
"I think the United States could and should be the world's leading voice for expanding trade opportunities."
"As Senator Toomey has said, there's a lot of rhetoric about free trade, but when the agreements are supposed to be sent over, they're not sent over, and one excuse after another."
"I look at Dodd-Frank as an incredible exercise of laziness by Congress where basically Congress punted all the tough decisions to regulators."
"Dodd-Frank was basically put in place and rushed the way that it was to create clarity in the markets, and anything but that has happened."
"I do wish we had taken more time to do the work we needed to do to understand the issues instead of just, as Congress typically does, acting like we did something great."
"So someone's testimony appears to be false here."