All Quotes

Concerns about surveillance do not become a stalking horse for digital protectionism.

Opening Japan's agricultural market is priority one for agriculture.

It is essential to ensure that the ambitious trade negotiations currently under way are successful and that we achieve the best possible outcome for the American people.

China continues to be one of our most important and most challenging trading partners.

I hope you will help push the administration to be a stronger, more public advocate on behalf of renewing Trade Promotion Authority.

It is essential that the Deputy USTR be a powerful advocate for strong intellectual property rights protection.

I intend to vote for them. I have known them for quite a while, to be honest with you, and they are good people.

I will not support an agreement that does not provide for the robust protection of U.S. intellectual property rights.

The Deputy USTR also plays an important role, particularly in formulating U.S. trade policy and advocating on behalf of America's international trade interests.

Do you believe that it is in the national security interest of the United States for DOD to continue to ensure that we maintain a domestic source of the critical chemical ammonium perchlorate used in space launches and tactical and…

For national security purposes, it desires the development of a domestic replacement of the RD-180 so that we do not have to rely on Russia for certain launch capabilities.

Would you please give me an update on the status of this report and your thoughts on the usability of other propulsion systems like solid rocket motors for NSS launch?

Well, I can tell you, Mr. Chairman, Wall Street went berserk because we didn't fund the SEC and the CFTC. That is the problem. These watchdog agencies are charged with an onerous task, and we don't provide the appropriations, and this is…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 59, beginning on line 20, strike section 501. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 661, the gentlewoman from…

I know Senator Hatch urged us to have you on the panel, and I am surely glad that he did.

Senator Portman and I have introduced something called the Medicare Better Health Rewards Program.

We have a very important report coming out from the FDA, an amendment that I authored in the FDA Safety and Innovation Act that we passed, that is going to require an action plan for more participation of women in drug clinical trials…

I am grateful to all of you. Your testimony surely hit home here, and we want to do everything we can to help, and we will see what we can do.