Hilda L. Solis: “Having a job is essential to being a part of the middle class.”

But to win the future, we cannot cut in a way that will undermine our ability to out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build our economic competitors.

We believe that PLAs actually help to bring down the costs and provide conformity.

We must come together, reduce our deficit, and get back on a path that will allow us to pay down our debt.

I agree with you that we need to have better trade agreements that are fair, and I look forward to encouraging the manufacturing base here to grow and be robust.