we cannot conclude a truly ambitious trade agreement without the inclusion of strong and enforceable currency provisions.

Many small businesses rely on the H-2B Visa program to hire foreign nationals to fill temporary, seasonal, nonagricultural jobs.

I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good.

H.R. 6082 would require the Department of the Interior to open up a number of new areas on the OCS.

You can assure this committee and this Senate that in these large-scale regional trade agreements, whether it is the U.S.-EU agreement or whether it is the TPP, that we will not--you/we will not--undermine any of the financial regulators…

Do you think investor-state provisions are fundamentally different in an advanced property rights group of countries like the EU than in a trade agreement we might have signed with a Latin American country?

I am hopeful that you will look at this in a bit more proactive, preemptive way as you decide this.

I think you seeing steel being made, and its importance in the economy in making things and being a leader in everything from national security to security of families that make steel, would matter so much.

The same was true in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. When he cut taxes, we increased revenue.

And we have a progressive tax system here in this country, and it ought to remain progressive.

betting against America.

teetering on collapse, and they are asking for taxpayers to help sustain them.

either the biggest building in the world or the biggest tax scam in the world.

That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful.

We're a little sick and tired of this idea that only the people on the Intelligence Committees are briefed on this.

Perhaps other members of Congress should be briefed on this because, Anderson, they're being blindsided by all of this right now.

We'll all miss him, and we had a wonderful service.

We've got to do a better job of reaching out to the people with disabilities who maybe were working before, got laid off and are having trouble getting back into the workforce.