If our country is serious about protecting workers, and I don't mean that in a protectionist way, I mean just in a fair way, the Commerce Department should do as you suggest.

We can commit anew to using all the economic, diplomatic, and security tools at our disposal.

During the past year the [Chinese] Government increased its targeting of human rights lawyers and dissidents...

I want to thank and recognize Minority Leader Pelosi, whom I'm pleased to join here today for her longstanding support for Chinese dissidents.

The American people and the U.S. Government should be more outraged by these actions.

Many of these individuals came under government suspicion precisely because they chose to represent politically undesirable religious groups...

It is never, ever too late to redouble efforts.

nothing is more important than--one of the most important things we can do then is to make sure that the names of the prisoners are always given to them in meetings, that we talk about it on the floor of the House and in public statements…

Madam Chair, my amendment today is meant to address only one of several troubling provisions in the bill. As my colleagues have pointed out, the SCRUB Act is a radical approach to deregulation and would prioritize cost savings through…

climate change is real. Scientific evidence across the world, we think we are the only country in the world that doesn't--that has any internal disagreement about climate change.

Doesn't that create a vacuum for the Chinese?

I just have never seen the United States quite so blatantly, in the matter of 1 month, contradict itself so profoundly with respect to something so important, namely, our relations with China.

We have seen, or we are seeing policies that contradict each other with respect to this region and China.

We just contradicted ourselves and, frankly, handed an enormous victory to the Chinese that will be very long-lasting.

Congratulations on your Nobel Prize.

this is a great leap forward for the Committee and for America.

Thank you very much.

Thank you all very much for being here. It's fun to have three economists and mathematicians.