Tom Harkin: “Well, I thank the Senator very much. I thank the Senator from Ohio, a great friend and a great supporter of working…”

“Well, I thank the Senator very much. I thank the Senator from Ohio, a great friend and a great supporter of working Americans. I would just say that the bill that Senator Brown has been championing is now leading the charge on the China currency bill, and I think it is one of the important steps forward in making sure we start creating jobs for Americans. How can we create jobs for Americans when we have a Chinese currency that is underpinning their exports to America, undercutting our jobs in this country? So this is a big step forward. I hope we can get cloture. I hope we can move forward on the bill. So I thank the Senator from Ohio for his steadfastness on making sure we got the bill to the floor, and I hope we get the votes to pass it. Again, we can focus on the jobs in this country, but if we are just going to continue to allow China to undercut us in just every possible way through manipulating their currency so they can undercut us by 20 or 25 percent on a lot of goods that come into this country, how are we going to manufacture those things?”