Mike Capuano: “We have a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because we went through some very difficult times.”

For those of you who are not, understand it is going to be very difficult to make an argument that for some reason everybody else could do it except you.

I also want to state that, from what I see, there has been a lot of progress made.

The fact is China launched this trade war against us in the year 2000, right after two-thirds of Democrats voted against giving China most favored nation status.

But it is also worth noting that to the American people, it was Democrats under the sterling leadership of our Ranking Member, Ms. Maxine Waters, who has been fighting and been our protector on many of these issues.