"the only bills the President is going to sign this year are appropriations bills and post offices."
"In the Year 2000, the United States made an enormous blunder in granting Permanent Most Favored Nation status to China."
"The only way to achieve this is for Congress to revoke most favored nation status for China."
"My bill is designed to create an immediate crisis. Six months to negotiate a whole new trade process with China, rather than just end all U.S.-Chinese trade."
"Most organizations when they make a $2 trillion error, go back and look at that even without having to be prodded by a bald congressman from California, but I'm happy to play that role."
"Okay. Looking at the Korea free trade agreement, you have made an estimate that it would reduce our trade deficit slightly."
"What we could do instead is introduce and adopt legislation prohibiting state, local, and Federal Governments from procuring anything from China until such time as they sign the WTO agreement on procu..."
"You'll also have the joy of the sign-on letters, where you send letters to the Chinese Embassy and sign your name."
"The United States-China trade deficit swelled from $83 billion... to a record high of $273 billion in 2010."
"The Economic Policy Institute estimates that roughly 2.4 million American jobs were lost as a result of our intentional blindness to this trade deficit."
"This Korea free trade agreement, it allows goods to be 65 percent made in China."