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 opposed granting TPA for a number of reasons but the one major reason is, and I did it in part because I really also want to protect American workers..."

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

"There is no denying the fact that Vietnam is an oppressive one-party state that has no respect for the rights of its own citizens."