Brad Sherman

It is essential that we put these issues of human rights and workers' rights and democracy back at the center of our U.S.-China dialogue.

2014 is the year that the U.S. Government needs to take action. Congress should take action, and the Administration should take action.

I think that this Commission's proposal that human rights and rule of law be integral to all trade and economic discussions is important.

The imbalanced trade relationship between China and the United States continues to grow, to the point where our bilateral trade deficit with China is more than two-thirds of our non-oil goods deficit with the entire world.

The fact is when we asked whether China plays by the rules, most of the field is hidden.

Is there anything in China that reminds us of that system?

In determining whether China is playing fairly, one is tempted to just look at the scoreboard, the balance of trade.

What about the 'Hotel California' rule, that if you are covered by the Volcker Rule, and then you are no longer a commercial bank or own a commercial bank, you are still covered by it?

I am wondering a bit why the Volcker Rule applies to debt instruments such as bonds at all.

A nation with our economic problems has fundamental interests at home.

Our entire military is looking at this as a chance to face a noble foe, a chance to be in the kind of conflict that is far less frustrating than fighting insurgencies.

It is my understanding that if there is a tiny speck just barely above water, the smallest possible island, that whoever owns that island controls 125,000 nautical miles, 200 miles in every direction.

We have a tremendous interest in everything in the world.

If it is inhabited, I assume that an island that was previously uninhabited, that gains habitation, counts as a habitable island.

Our national policy establishment has embraced the new phrase, 'pivot toward Asia,' which sounds like more trade delegations to Tokyo...

I slightly disagree with Dr. Pollack when he says we have got to have fairness for the Sunnis or we are going to have continued unrest.

We foolishly and prematurely turned the government over to native governments that were certainly not pro-American.

When America gets hoodwinked into fighting and dying for Iran's allies, that is not necessarily a good thing.

We have to resist the Pentagon's desire to pivot toward Asia.

Too-big-to-fail is too-big-to-exist.

A 2 percent target inflation rate is reasonable, especially given the disaster that can occur to our economy if we have deflation.

This comatose economy still needs stimulus.

Should all of its Board Members be Presidentially appointed for whatever terms are reasonable?

I hope our witnesses address that part of the dual mandate dealing with both unemployment and inflation.

I hope we look at Section 13(3), which remains the most dangerous economic provision in our statute books.