In general, we have not done enough to push the Chinese on human rights.

Nothing prevents a man from understanding something so much that his livelihood depends upon him not understanding it.

This is simply absurd to have you gentlemen come to us and say, we gave MFN for China, we saw the result.

Washington and Wall Street have backed the trade policies over the last 20 years. We see the results.

If you don't bail us out, we are going to take the whole economy down with us.

A negative security assurance, with all due respect to the Executive Branch of Government, is pretty meaningless without it being a treaty.

We should be putting these companies to a fundamental choice between doing business in Iran and doing business in the United States.

Under American law the only legitimate trade is food and medicine.

What measures and secondary sanctions can we adopt here in Congress to convince our European and Asian friends to withhold these non-lethal exports, particularly spare parts?

What if we were to go further and say no company in the world could get a Federal or state contract if they sold anything to Iran other than food or medicine?

You would think that having gone from the largest trade surplus in the history of mammalian life to going to largest trade deficit, the elites of this country would understand that we are getting something wrong.

The last convoys need to leave Camp Ashraf for Camp Hurriya. Camp Ashraf should be closed.