Ms. Tai, you must make the President understand that trade is a domestic priority for hundreds of millions of Americans.

Mexico appears to be discriminating against U.S. businesses to favor its state-owned oil and gas giant Pemex.

Free trade does not just strengthen the powerful, it empowers all Americans, including those running and working in smaller businesses.

The importance of fair trade, and the price of it being denied, is also well understood by the people of Idaho.

I will be brief. I again want to also thank you, Ms. Tai, for your willingness to serve.

Free trade does not just strengthen the powerful; it empowers all Americans, including those running and working in smaller businesses.

Our problem is not about whether to open our market further, it is in fact that too many foreign markets remain closed to us.

I am very concerned about getting a much stronger focus on IP protection in our U.S. trade negotiations and activities.

A successful trade policy means more high-paying jobs.

We need to preserve our leadership in this field.

Put plainly, the United States does not just lose potential opportunities when its leaders fail to engage appropriately on trade.

Mexico is maintaining or enacting new restrictions on the U.S. that lack any scientific justification.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of subsidized and dumped Canadian lumber imports on American businesses and jobs.

We need these jobs more than ever if we are to emerge from this pandemic stronger than before.

This is why the U.S. needs an effective USTR to tear down trade barriers and confront abusive trade practices.

We cannot let the 750,000 jobs in the lumber industry or the 420 million acres of family-owned timberlands be threatened by unfair subsidies.

Americans deserve to sell their products and need access to that huge foreign marketplace.

I look forward to hearing more from you, Ms. Tai, regarding how you would use your experience to engage the numerous challenges facing the United States, if confirmed as USTR.

We must carefully evaluate our response to the pandemic and implement appropriate reforms based on the lessons we have learned.

The popular Medicare Advantage program that covers 24 million beneficiaries must be allowed to continue to thrive.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made the HHS mission even more critical, as these programs will play a key role in the pandemic response.

If confirmed, I will look at the telehealth flexibilities developed for the current public health emergency and determine how we can build on this work to improve health equity and improve access to health care.

We wrote a law, a bipartisan law in this committee... to reflect the transformation in the Medicare program.

The HI trust fund is in dire straits. The most recent Medicare trustees report projected that the HI trust fund would be officially bankrupt in 2026.

The Department of Health and Human Services is a sprawling department, with over 80,000 employees and responsibility for over $1 trillion in annual spending.