Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and let me just say to the Chairman and Ranking Member, this is another excellent hearing.
I appreciate the candor of the answer. I think you acknowledge there were some things here that just simply were missed.
What is this going to cost? Second, timing. And that's been mentioned also, but I'll just underscore it.
I don't want to overpromise this.
I have not liked that idea from the beginning. It would seem to me to be just an enormous conflict of interest.
Do we have in our system the cord we can pull that is the safety valve that says, again, in effect, time out.
I think it is a real frustration for us here to be faced with these issues of, well, Mike, this is just way too big to allow it to fail, and...
I certainly don't want to stall growth in this Nation. I mean, gosh, we are the greatest Nation on earth.
You did it in a very bipartisan way. You worked with Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.
Let there be no doubt about it. I like Gary Locke a lot.
I maintain no President can negotiate a trade agreement without TPA.