Mr. President, I thank Senator Wyden for his leadership for our seniors, for our Nation's economy, and for all of our people.

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Oregon for organizing this evening's recognition. Fifty-three years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law, delivering healthcare to seniors and some of our…

We need to do that. We need to do that now.

The Russian hackers got to the point where they could have thrown switches.

we can't afford to do that, I believe, in a unilateral way that causes an unnecessary trade war with our allies and puts American companies at a disadvantage.

I think it is concerning that the Administration is acting as if employee representation is somehow rote work that anybody just does.

I do believe that the employee representatives need to adequately represent their organizations and employees.

I would say that many of us believe that representing employees and making sure their voices are heard serves the government and the people of the United States of America.

Maybe I'm faulting the implementation rather than the strategy then.

I think one might think that the Administration is simply trying to dilute the effectiveness of employee representatives, and that concerns me greatly.

I think has come out from several people who have asked questions.

I think if we were engaged in negotiations around TTIP, that would have significantly reduced tariffs.

Absolutely, but----

But I guess the question that I'm asking is there wasn't anything--as I understood the announcement and the analysis that I heard, there wasn't anything specific that was agreed to yesterday except an agreement to talk further and to set…

I appreciate that. I think that's very important because as we look at how our American workers are impacted by some of those agreements...

This Committee continues to be an example of really commonsense, bipartisan leadership.

Little Bay is worried that they are going to lose their market permanently.

This is a deal that would have doubled their output--and for a small business, that meant a lot--but what's happened, they've had to lay off employees, and they've also been hit by the increased cost of aluminum because of the tariffs on…