I have been working for several years on a proposal to kind of get us out of the sandbox that we have been in for the last 100 years with a progressive Tax Code.

I applaud the efforts of Representative Nunes and Pallone for their leadership on this matter.

There is no one committed more to getting AGOA passed than yourself from the time of our first meeting.

I would like to call the Committee to order. Good afternoon. Welcome to today's hearing on advancing our trade agenda and trade with Africa.

we are committed to a seamless, bipartisan renewal of AGOA well before its expiration in fifteen months.

Agriculture exports benefit both rural and urban America.

Tariffs must be eliminated without exclusion.

A growing concern is non-tariff barriers, particularly unwarranted sanitary and phytosanitary or SPS measures.

we have to have trade promotion authority, or you could very well kill TPP in its infancy.

The United States must remain the world's leading agriculture exporter.

I think this would be a strategic error, as I presented to this committee last year...