Sander Levin

We need to know what the heck is going on, and be able to lean in if it isn't going well.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is potentially a trade package of historic significance.

I strongly suggest we organize on a bipartisan basis to work and discuss the substance of TPP.

Democrats believe that reforming the Tax Code should not be centered on rate cuts at the very top for the wealthiest Americans.

The important challenge in trade is not just get it done, but get it right.

They are desperate to find a connection. They have never found it.

I think it illustrates the need for continuing and major congressional involvement.

The notice advising this hearing focused on trade promotion authority, specifically the TPA legislation introduced in January by you, Mr. Chairman, and former Senator Baucus.

What we have really had from the Republicans is diatribe.

Non-defense discretionary funding levels are now being lowered to levels that we haven't seen in decades.

I welcome your statement and the President's actions on Ukraine. And I hope all of us will rally together to be supportive of the President's action.

This hearing should be for us listening to her story and the stories of so many others.

More than 90 percent of the rise in employment nationwide has been due to workers in full-time jobs.

A small percentage of employers, less than 1 percent, will be affected by the employer responsibility provision in the ACA.

That reality has been reflected in 40-plus efforts by Republicans to repeal, dismantle, or defund the Affordable Care Act.

Well, thank you. A warm welcome.

Democrats want to make the Affordable Care Act work, congressional Republicans don't.

Now, having still failed to derail the ACA, the Republican focus of attack has shifted.

The reality is that the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans are failing to work on with Democrats, is working quite effectively in States running the marketplaces.

I might say, if everybody would pitch in to make it work, the goals that have been set would be more readily met.

The President, I think, talked about 'up to.'

The Republican mission is clear. Do not implement; destroy.

I do not know how more negative, more destructive you can be than that.

It is totally destructive. It will not happen.

At every turn, Republicans have chosen the path of disruption.