Brad Sherman

I am going to suggest that you simply abolish the penny.

Most transactions are through an electronic payment system. We have to make sure that remains in U.S. control.

The rules--we round every transaction, in every State with a sales tax.

The rent is too damn high, the paycheck is too damn low. Nothing we do is going to make housing affordable unless we increase supply.

Just because it has a venerable name it doesn't answer the question.

But wait a minute. You're spending--you're spending the money and people will come to you with projects...

If they are anything like prior USTRs, they are just looking at what's in the interests of the profits of the big corporations and they are not looking at the trade deficit and they are not looking at jobs.

But I want to ask Ms. Steele, you're often going to be approached by brand name U.S. corporations...

I am a progressive. I am on the left. I know what a real communist is, and President Xi, you're not communist.

I will disagree with just one thing with the chairman's remarks. I don't think what China calls socialism with Chinese characteristics is communism.

I would say the Indians might benefit from us telling them in advance, rather than waiting for them to do something in ignorance of what our position is.

What--how many people does the Myanmar military have to kill before the United States would recognize that North Rakhine state should be independent or join with Bangladesh?

We are loathe, as a country, to urge the change of any international border.

I raised the case from a human rights perspective of Dr. Anwar Laghari, a law-abiding nonviolent leader from Sindh who was assassinated in 2015.

I might prefer an administration that doesn't fill positions.

I would hope that the State Department would be staffed by people properly appointed by the administration.

I hope they fill positions with people that are capable, who have the resume, the background, the experience, and are empowered by having a permanent position.

In the past 4 years, our annual foreign aid to these countries has averaged $400 million.

What is the problem we are trying to solve, except for the problem that the narcotics dealers have?

We need a medium of exchange. We need a unit of value.

There is no way to square that unless we abolish Social Security and Medicare.

There is no positive role for us for cryptocurrencies.

We should have the courage to ban them. As an investment, they are an investment with no investor protection.

Dodd-Frank stabilized the financial system, and coincident with its effective date, we have had a massive economic expansion that has produced 17 million new jobs.

Well, a lot of infants are going to get worse nutrition as a result of the successful efforts by the United States at the World Health Organization to water down this resolution, and I yield back.