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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I understand that a certain level of confidentiality must almost unavoidably surround many of the NSA programs that might be of concern to the American people, to ensure the effectiveness and to keep our enemy actors from working around…

Particularly given the fact that the NSA's mission is related to foreign intelligence-gathering, we need to make sure that we protect American citizens in their constitutionally protected rights.

The Fourth Amendment stands to safeguard those rights, and even if one assumes for purposes of this discussion that currently the only people employed at the NSA are people with only our best interests at heart, we still run a risk, even…

I worry about the NSA's surveillance and metadata collection programs and the risks that such programs could pose to the constitutionally protected rights of American citizens.

There does have to be a balance struck between achieving our national security goals and protecting the constitutionally guaranteed rights of American citizens.

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

I urge you strongly to pursue those pilot projects.

I just want you to know that, all three of you.

Protecting the homeland is essential to our security, but trade is also very important to our economic security.

The dual missions that Senator Hatch mentioned, which are to facilitate legitimate trade and travel and, also, secure the border, are missions that I believe are mutually reinforcing.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.