I am here in support of inclusion of report language requested by Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.

I want to join Mr. Rohrabacher in his call for better relations between the United States and Moscow.

while the economic theory is that free trade works perfectly, and will enhance everybody, no one has been able to explain why we have a $600 billion trade deficit.

if we want both vehicles and low-income consumers to get cheap natural gas, we are going to have to keep natural gas cheap.

what we really need are good jobs at good wages.

It is said often by the proponents of foreign aid that it is the most poor and dispossessed that become terrorists and wage war against us.

I commend you for holding these hearings.

One thing that disturbs me with our aid with regard to Syria, but also other places, is that we are deliberately obscuring the fact that the aid comes from the United States.

what right to work, or what I call right to work for less will mean in terms of the wages and working conditions of those who work on these projects?

I think you ought to increase that instead.

Our development aid is the right thing to do and that is reason enough for us to pay for it.

I want to associate myself with your concerns.