The first energy title was created in the 2002 Farm Bill, and it was designed to help develop feedstock for renewables fuels.
Today, we will hear from USDA about the farm bill programs they administer under the energy and forestry titles.
I appreciate your work on that and your reporting back when you raised the issue with the Pakistani leadership.
The unfortunate reality is that our trade policies have failed to protect our workers from unfair trade practices.
Manufacturing employment peaked in the United States in 1979 at 19.6 million workers. Today we are down to 11.7 million.
I think we need to see Congress step up to the plate.
Currency manipulation is costing our workers jobs, and it needs to be stopped.
Since the end of 2009, manufacturing has added 250,000 jobs approximately.
The Treasury Department can do more.
Even though our manufacturing employment has declined significantly since the 1970s, the U.S. remains the world's manufacturing leader.
We must extend trade adjustment assistance to help workers who have lost their jobs based upon unfair foreign competition.
This is--if it is not the key thing we have got to do, it is in the top two or three.
It is time for that to change, and changing means charting a new manufacturing strategy which will strengthen our economy and help create ne...
It is time to crack down on China's currency manipulation and other unfair trade practices so that American companies and workers have a fai...
The U.S. needs to develop a comprehensive national manufacturing strategy built from the input of small and large businesses.
The current MSP system, which we are investigating today, discourages and even prevents companies from settling claims involving Medicare be...
I hope that that information is getting to her.
I think the more I hear, the more it boggles the mind and breaks the heart when we hear of what happens to seniors.
