Brad Sherman

I look forward to working on this Committee to make sure that, as we move forward with these two important areas of scientific development, artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, that we have the appropriate controls, and that we…

If someone's describing what the future will be 30 years from now, and they paint a picture that you think looks like a science fiction movie, they might be right, they might be wrong.

I believe that science will transform our lives even more this century than it did last century.

What I tell you we can guarantee that if we break up the too-big-to-fail institutions and I am still looking for co-sponsors, particularly bipartisan co-sponsors, on that effort.

We couldn't find any U.S. businesses, small and medium-sized business to make loans to. We had this capital so we sent it to London where it was eaten by the whale.

I couldn't agree with you more that credit unions need to be allowed and, in fact, encouraged to serve the underserved.

It is up to this committee to step in and get the FASB to delay, and if they don't, to actually pass legislation withdrawing this CECL regulation.

But we are told the way to get tough with China is to ignore the devastation done especially to our Midwest by their trade policies, and instead, spend a few hundred billion dollars fighting over islets that are both useless and, in any…

My record is not one of unwavering support for the current occupant of the White House, but I want to commend the President for at least focusing our attention on China's unfair trade practices and the horrific results to the United States.

When China tries to get extraterritorial power over Sri Lanka through a debt instrument, we should respond appropriately.

We do not engage in debt trap financing. When a U.S. Government entity makes a loan, it is with the expectation that the loan is affordable, can be repaid, and can be repaid normally out of the project's revenues.

If the gentleman would yield, I will point out that there is a significant territorial dispute between India and China, and in the 1960's, there was more than one armed conflict over that.

I would point out that America does not seek a $300 billion trade surplus with China.

I want more. I want disclose the bad deal, borrow more in a second bad deal, borrow more in a third bad deal, and then renounce all the debt.

Well, yes. I mean, not that we would build another harbor for them for free, but they would be no worse off for wear.

Fine. Borrow the first, then borrow the second, then borrow the third. Raise your debt to $10-, $20 trillion, and then renounce it all, and then still have complete access to all the Western financial institutions. Sounds like a plan.

It would serve them right, by the way.

I have commended President Trump for not ignoring the problems with China.

I am particularly interested in the idea of the U.S. Government setting standards for a high-quality infrastructure.

The trade deficit we have with China is the largest trade deficit in the history of mammalian life.

Legitimacy, governmental legitimacy is critical, because the question the people always ask is, why are those folks running things?

China's policies are so extreme, so outrageous, that they have done the impossible. They have gotten Democrats and Republicans to agree.

While today we are told that the world domination of China is inevitable, 25 years ago, when I was just beginning to run for Congress, I could find 12 books that told me that Japan would be dominating the world right about now.

Our say on 123 Agreements is too weak, and we have legislation to make that say stronger.

If this committee cannot set the example and say, 'We do not want to benefit from the theft of information by foreign adversaries,' then we are going to have a tough time.