Marco Rubio

Our values of openness allow them to invest, the Chinese to invest here, but when we try to reciprocate there are all kinds of impediments to that.

The rules they want are actually much more one-sided, to the benefit of China and to the detriment of their neighbors and perhaps the rest of the world.

We are going to negotiate to get a high quality, high standard agreement, and that is what we are still after.

This is an order that I think has benefited not just these countries, by the way, but the Chinese people, for whom access to the American marketplace has really expanded economic opportunity.

But while open trade has benefited the Chinese people, the Chinese Communist Party is not all that enthusiastic about expanding civil liberties.

Asia today accounts for about 33 percent of U.S. trade.

It will be critical to bringing home and implementing this agreement once it is finally negotiated.

We have a dictator with nuclear weapons who has just executed his uncle.

But again, our official policy is we do not recognize the zone and by and large we are going to ignore it?

There are extraordinary opportunities to which we need to pay close attention.

I believe our commercial sector for weather forecasting plays a real vital role, both today and in the future.

Weather forecasting is important. We rely on it for daily decisions that we make in our private lives, but also in the commercial sector.

We've seen the impact that public sector unions have had on places like Wisconsin and on Detroit and, while I don't think we're that far down the line at the National Weather Service, I think it's important that we address any…

I'm concerned that as we review the agency and work to not only maintain a robust forecasting system, but also address potential future data gaps due to satellite launch delays, the demands of the workforce may work against our efforts to…

If the United States were to pursue the zero option, completely withdraw, or even if we were to withdraw, potentially, to a level below a certain number, would it be safe to say that, between 18 and 24 months, we would see, potentially…

I have heard from a lot of people in Florida who are desperate to hear from their loved ones and to provide a helping hand during the relief-and-recovery operations.

As Americans, this is what we have always done as a people. This is who we still are.

Contrast that, by the way, with Beijing, whose initial pledge was $100,000--$100,000, just a fraction of what was committed by other countries a fraction of their size.

It is in times like these, by the way, where we are reminded of how important an engaged America is for the world, especially for allies like the Philippines.

I would strongly consider, suggest to this committee that they ought to take a look at that legislation and perhaps bring that into the reauthorization debate.

I think it's vital that we have economics factored into every decision that we make.

If I gave you this notepad, could you write the coordinates for the best spots out there?

In the Senate, it's Foreign Relations; in the House it's Foreign Affairs.

If we had a little more flexibility to rebuild the stock, say based on stock abundance rather than arbitrary timeframes and arbitrary numbers of fish or pounds, it would give us greater flexibility.

We hope to get that season announcement out by the end of this calendar year, giving fishermen many months notice.