Brad Sherman

Just one comment for the record, our materials for this hearing talk about preserving our veto at the IMF. We don't have a veto at the IMF.

The way to deal with the non-tariff barriers is to have results or in trade agreements.

We should be as proud of these trade rules as the Spaniards are of the Spanish flu, both have wrecked incredible destruction.

There is a huge difference between setting your interest rates for your own national economic growth on the one hand, and intervening in currency markets to push down your currency and steal jobs on the other.

I do serve on the House Financial Services Committee, and have for 18 years.

Just because all the seats are not filled does not mean that this matter is not of critical importance.

These aren't weapons they are getting their hands on from Paraguay. These are weapons from the world's superpower.

We have to go with strength and nuance, although frankly I think in this case we need a little bit more strength, a little bit less nuance.

99 percent of the bills that the administration does not want on the President's desk are not there due to the hard work of your allies here in Congress.

Every time I talk about them cheating on their currency, China particularly, the response is, 'But they're cheating less.'

Under the Constitution, you guys have control over trade.

The proponents of this can't even figure out a way to lie to us.

The rules of the road in the future ought to be fair trade.

The economic arguments for TPP are so bad that we have to be told that somehow we're going to obtain a national security advantage.

Our jurisdiction includes the two nuclear powers that don't have stable governments, North Korea and Pakistan.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership which is basically a trade deal with Asia is, perhaps, the only legislation this Congress will pass.

I'm glad to see that so many of us from California and Arizona were able to get through the snow of the East.

Maximum employment means everybody who wants a job gets a job.

It is a lifeline. And whatever you are being told as to when to 'take away the punchbowl,' add another 6 months...

I hope that in designating SIFIs, you would focus on the size of the liabilities, not the size of the assets.

It is hard to say that the President doesn't have enough authority to do all the things that many of us hope he does not do.

I don't want to vote to have American soldiers going house to house in Mosul in a bloody hand to hand combat role.

Ground troops, if necessary to take territory, will be necessary to hold the territory.

This is the richest terrorist organization in history.

We are all aware of the evil of ISIS. ISIS almost asks us to take military action against them.