Investing in workers should be the core of our domestic agenda and our trade agenda.

The United States does not have a trade agreement with China, so there are no standards for environmental or worker protections.

Our failure to support working families, and especially working women, has left the U.S. behind.

We need $700 billion for child care in the infrastructure bill.

I am glad that the Biden administration is saying all the right things about putting labor, environmental, and equity issues at the center of our trade policy.

Nothing will change unless regulators step in.

If we want trade deals to work for everyone, not just for big corporations, it is not enough to say we are going to put this on one President.

The United States should be racing to make investments in green technology, green products, green infrastructure.

So we are going to have the ranking member and I trade out.

We really need the government's signal and the government's support to help companies make those investments.

That is not an accident. That is a policy choice.

The goal of economic competition should be to make our domestic economy strong and to raise the standard of living for the American people.

Cryptocurrencies are going to play a significant role in our financial system for years to come.

We can and we must do better for our workers. It is the right thing to do.

China continues to build outdated and polluting coal-fired power plants throughout the developing world.

China has been acting with impunity, and in part because countries around the world have been unwilling to act.

These bills and other clean energy investments with strong labor provisions should be included in the infrastructure package that Congress is working on now.

If we fail to act, then we will spend the coming decades relying on China and other countries.

They are throwing the book at the problem.

China is already making these investments, seeking to combat pollution and to dominate new sectors.

Economic competition from China presents serious challenges for American workers and businesses, but it also presents a call to action.

We should be addressing workers' concerns at the beginning, when a trade policy is negotiated, not trying to pay them off once they lose their jobs and their communities have been destroyed.

Let us lead by example as a Nation, to define the rules of global competition.

We have a chance to show China and the whole world that an American approach that invests in and empowers workers is the most effective way to compete.

China right now poses the greatest global threat to climate change.