Josh Hawley actually said...

"Yes, it is hard for free labor to compete with exploited forced labor. Is that fair to say?"

"U.S. textile manufacturers compete in one of the most unbalanced economic playing fields of any industrial sector."

"The industry used to employ, I would say, 3 million workers in the 1990s, and now we are about 600,000 workers."

"I think the idea of keeping them there indefinitely and keeping a barbed wire fence around the Capitol indefinitely is crazy."