Tom Carper

Additionally, the U.S. bio-pharmaceutical industry has had several patents disregarded, just disregarded, due to inappropriate use of compulsory licensing and patent revocation.

One of those is to try to invest a little money in workforce development, workforce skills, especially the STEM skills: science, technology, engineering, and math.

I remain concerned with the restrictive trade practices that particularly our poultry and other products face in that country which remove opportunities for market access in a growing economy of, I think, about 1.2 billion people.

Is it correct to say that, as you look to begin negotiations on the other side, on this side of the ocean, this side of the country, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, that everything, including agricultural barriers…

The second area the President has called for investing in is infrastructure, broadly defined--not just roads, highways, bridges, but infrastructure broadly defined.

A third area is research and development, R&D, that can be commercialized and lead to the development of products, goods, and services that we can sell all over the world.

I think the people of the country are looking at us and are asking maybe three questions: (1) can they--that is, us-- govern; (2) can we in our country be fiscally responsible again; and (3) can we provide certainty with respect to our tax…

Well, I actually already started giving it to them again.

It was his decision to be able to make that.

Maybe we need to bring in 100,000 or 50,000.

We really want to work as a Committee to help you accomplish your jobs, not throw up roadblocks

I am concerned about two things in particular: refugees and student visas.

I just want to say thank you so much for coming early and staying late yet again--as we all are.

We need to focus while we work on the symptoms, which are more visible and which we talk about a whole lot, but think about the underlying causes.

For every President I have seen here since Ronald Reagan right up through President Obama, there is a similar kind of discipline at work.

I believe in due process, but I still would do it.

We do share pretty heavily with the Mexican Government in terms of air tracks.

It just defies belief.

I do not know that we are ever going to get to that simple example that I cited earlier...

Our job is to say, what are our goals? Where is the money? How effectively are we doing it?

That is a remarkable development and clearly a significant change for the better.

I saw a border that appears to me to be--and to a lot of other people--more secure than it has ever been.

We ought to take them out.

I think that is true for all of us. Everything we all do, every Government program we have, I suspect we can do better.

A key requirement for us to be able to come to that kind of agreement is really based on what we are talking about here--our border is more secure.