Brad Sherman

We don't broadcast in Japanese or German because those are countries of the free press. And they get plenty of good information at their own cost.

So you are saying the power of Wall Street has prevented Congress from doing what obviously needs to be done?

The insurance industry survived the real-life stress test of 2008.

What you are saying is, Hanoi fully understands that they can make a governmental decision to buy less than $5 billion worth of our goods, and still send $20 billion worth of their goods to the United States.

What have we done to tell the Government in Hanoi that their access to the U.S. market is dependent upon them buying more of our exports?

Chris Smith, of course, has his Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2013.

Zoe Lofgren's FREE Vietnam Act, which links trade to human rights.

I want to particularly focus on Le Quoc Quan, who has worked for the National Democratic Institute and the National Endowment for Democracy as a fellow and has found himself in prison pretty much as a result of that.

I think this due date provision is constitutional.

I hope that we will enforce those limitations as the law requires, no matter how politically difficult.

That is damn effective tax accounting.

If you have reached a certain size, too-big-to-fail is 'too-big-to-exist.'

The outcome in Syria is important to us.

Clearly we need more affordable housing. That tends to be multifamily rental housing.

It is critically important that they be impartial.

We have been told that there is a constitutional right of corporate CEOs to use other people's money, in this case the shareholders, on political communications or propaganda without even disclosing what they are doing.

I stopped reading science fiction when I got to Congress because in my work I found more strange and wonderful things than could be in the pages of science fiction.

Currency manipulation is something that ought to be at the highest levels of the State Department.

We see China not allowing our movies in, except in limited numbers, and yet we allow an unlimited number of Chinese tennis shoes in.

The real question, why are we running a huge trade deficit, it is either because our workers and entrepreneurs are worse or our Government is worse.

We have a huge trade deficit. It is as big a problem as our budget deficit; it just receives far less attention.

We sometimes speak a different language than those who favor bailouts, should deal with translation.

We ought to break up those who are too-big-to-fail.

Ultimately, though, you don't need legislation to get a bailout.

There is no contradiction among those of us who believe in maximum sanctions and continued negotiations.