Brad Sherman

In general, we have not done enough to push the Chinese on human rights.

Nothing prevents a man from understanding something so much that his livelihood depends upon him not understanding it.

This is simply absurd to have you gentlemen come to us and say, we gave MFN for China, we saw the result.

Washington and Wall Street have backed the trade policies over the last 20 years. We see the results.

If you don't bail us out, we are going to take the whole economy down with us.

A negative security assurance, with all due respect to the Executive Branch of Government, is pretty meaningless without it being a treaty.

You would think that having gone from the largest trade surplus in the history of mammalian life to going to largest trade deficit, the elites of this country would understand that we are getting something wrong.

We should be putting these companies to a fundamental choice between doing business in Iran and doing business in the United States.

What if we were to go further and say no company in the world could get a Federal or state contract if they sold anything to Iran other than food or medicine?

What measures and secondary sanctions can we adopt here in Congress to convince our European and Asian friends to withhold these non-lethal exports, particularly spare parts?

Under American law the only legitimate trade is food and medicine.

It would be extremely difficult for the immigration minister of any democracy to admit any person from this camp while the organization is designated by the great United States as a foreign terrorist organization.

The last convoys need to leave Camp Ashraf for Camp Hurriya. Camp Ashraf should be closed.

The real issue was that it was effective.

If we had balanced trade with China, our unemployment rate would be under 5 percent and the cost of containing China's aggressiveness in its region would be far less.

You need a unifying ideology to keep an elite, and an entire society together.

There is very substantial support in America for aid to Armenia.

The constraint is a lack of public support for foreign aid, which is the most controversial part of our budget.

The journey starts with us designating them all--

I would hope that before we do anything else to help the IMF, we insist, at a minimum, that Iran not be given any additional special drawing rights.

I was disappointed early in the Administration when we augmented the IMF with $105 billion but did not demand the suspension of Iran from the IMF.

I don't think that is the strategy we would want to employ, as noble as that goal is.

I have long advocated the strongest possible sanctions on Iran due to its terrorism.

I would think another decline in housing prices, or a failure to stabilize them and get them inching upward would be very bad for the economy, at least for the people I represent.

Let me assure you that every institution of the Federal Government that is typically involved in national security policy would like to see Iran as financially isolated as possible.