Alan Lowenthal actually said...

"I want to hear from you--I guess it is my assumption after listening--if you were advising us you would advise us, given the present circumstances, to vote against the TPP?"

"I was so disappointed and, frankly, absolutely shocked when just a few days after returning to the United States I learned that Nguyen Chi Tuyen... was badly beaten by five plainclothes police officer..."

"I think this is the inappropriate way to do it. Instead of working now at this moment to release prisoners of conscience..."

"I don't want to see TPP be achieved at the expense of human rights."