"I expect Ms. Tai will well demonstrate in today's hearing that she has the requisite skillset to deliver as much."
"If confirmed, working on the relationship with China on the implementation of the China agreement is absolutely critical."
"the agreement that we have with China is the agreement that we have, and there are promises that China made that China needs to deliver on."
"If the Biden administration wants a worker-centered trade policy, as it claims it does, then our USTR should ensure that the international trading regime strongly reflects American values rather than ..."
"I would like to thank you for this opportunity to clarify, when I talk about being confirmed and advancing a worker-centered trade policy, that 'workers' does absolutely include agricultural workers--..."
"I think it is absolutely worth exploring with China, but I also want to note that those are conversations, and those are roads that have been well-worn by U.S. Trade Representatives before me."
"the world is very different in important ways from the way the world was in 2015 and 2016."
"Transparency, predictability, due process, are all critical to the way we want our government to function."
"If you are an American and you work, you are an American worker, as I envision the way we are talking about this."
"We have to produce our own critical minerals, or develop new relationships with allies that we can trust."
"I am proud of their service to the Nation that welcomed them, and I am proud to live in a country where, in just one generation, their daughter could grow up to represent the United States and our int..."