Brad Sherman

There's nothing more ambiguous than refusing to tell me whether You're going to be ambiguous.

I thought Biden said, we will defend Taiwan.

We are not approaching this from a position of strength.

I think the meetings with high Chinese officials make a lot of sense.

It sounds like other than telling me that you do not want Taiwan invaded, you do not want to answer any questions.

Would that have a good effect on American morale? Should we ask our troops to die while our corporations make money and our consumers buy Chinese goods?

I cannot answer that right now.

Ms. Nuland argues well, that will embolden our enemies.

I agree with the ranking member that we need to revise the 2001 AUMF and put a sunset on it.

I hope my colleagues would me in introducing legislation to repeal the AUMF of 1957 dealing with communism in the Middle East, and 1991, dealing with Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. We should also repeal the 2002 AUMF.

Mr. Gensler, you have done more than anyone in government to thwart the creation of a deficient ecosystem.

I don't think swing pricing achieves its purpose.

I can't think of a worse thing we could do to American capitalism.

If we have a shutdown of the government, I think it has already been pointed out by the ranking member that we will stop all IPOs in their tracks.

One of the reasons for that is when you do the cost-benefit analysis, you leave out the social costs, the political costs, the cost to the fabric of our society.

We were in a strong position in 2014-2015. We had effective sanctions, particularly the banking sanctions.

That is a hell of a Sword of Damocles to have over the head of a business that is so critical to the economy and the fun of the United States.

This amendment is designed to wreak--well, I do not know if it is designed--would have the effect of wreaking havoc.

To put that amount of power in the hands of a Secretary of State, where you have to prove that China wasn't in the back of your mind when you made any decision, is a power that I wouldn't want to see in any executive branch officer.

This bill should not become effective until we have a system where Congress has the guts to confront China.

Put a tariff on Chinese goods and compensate the NBA if they get screwed because one of their managers or coaches mentions Taiwan.

Instead of blaming Hollywood for the fact that only 40 movies get in, we should blame the Congress.

We need to compensate American companies who are mistreated by China.

If you do not want Hollywood to fail to make a movie about Tibet... this bill will not do it.

This bill does not impose any taxes or tariffs in and of itself.