I am committed to launching these programs right and keeping them on track.

Let me just ask one more question of you, Mr. Cohen. I have enjoyed your testimony, I enjoy you personally, and we do not agree on some things, but that is okay.

If the administration does not get more involved in this effort to pass trade negotiating authority, we are not going to be successful.

This is a growing problem around the world, and it is estimated to cost U.S. businesses literally billions of dollars every year.

Health care, particularly in terms of rehabilitation, is a growing field.

Thank you, Senator Portman.

I would like to see organized labor get a little bit more behind these international trade agreements.

The Finance Committee received written testimony from J&J, Johnson and Johnson, in strong favor of our bill.

Rather than trade agreements costing U.S. jobs, company after company comes to me and tells me that trade agreements helped them create and retain jobs, both here and abroad.

Do you agree that the renewal of Trade Promotion Authority should be a top priority for President Obama this year?

In Pennsylvania, 20 percent of our manufacturing jobs are tied directly to trade.

I am very grateful to hear your testimony regarding the benefits international trade has brought to your company and to other companies of similar size.

There is some consensus that our federal welfare system is clunky and poorly designed, uncoordinated phase-outs of means tested programs where individuals with modest incomes may see astronomical effective marginal tax rates are part of…

It would be a shame if we would miss that opportunity.

I think incentives for work are very important, and I think you are seeing a lot of energy among some prominent conservatives such as yourself, Senator Rubio, Congressman Ryan, around reforming our safety net programs to fix the…

I am pleased to say that Salt Lake City and the surrounding area in my home State of Utah out-performed every other major metropolitan region in the country in that regard in this important metric.

The enduring priority of the Army is to preserve the high-quality All-Volunteer Force.

These, in other words, create effectively poverty traps in which people feel compelled not to do that which might be for their long--inure to their long-term benefit, but in the short term they might face penalties.