Tom Harkin: “So we have a huge trade deficit with China. We are buying everything from China. They get the dollars, and we go hat in…”

Good morning, everyone. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.

We're making some progress. We are. We're better off than we were last year or 20 years ago.

Both Senator Alexander and I will have opening statements.

Throughout my career, I have been guided by the vision of an America that is compassionate, just, and inclusive, a society where the government provides a ladder, or sometimes a ramp, of opportunity that will give all people equal access…