the White House opened up convenient loopholes to make not only foreign countries, but even our adversaries like China eligible to claim these taxpayer-funded subsidies.

I just have concerns that there can be great intentions, but as has happened all too often around this place, actual results are sometimes opposite to what the intentions were.

90 percent of these tax credits are going to the wealthiest corporations and to the wealthiest Americans.

I believe my Democrat colleagues are every bit as interested in continuing the good work we did with USMCA...

In my view, there is no treading water on trade matters. You are either moving ahead or you are losing ground.

Families like the one I grew up in and millions of others across America, they do the best they can to stretch every dollar to make ends meet.

Government policies have too often encouraged Americans not to work, resulting in increased dependency and millions of unfilled jobs.

This is a first step in ensuring that welfare programs work for America's families by helping lift them out of poverty and instead of keeping them trapped.

If we don't get welfare right, then we run the risk of trapping people in a generational cycle of poverty.

I hope this can be the area where Congress can come together and ensure that our welfare policies will work for a new generation.

Is that the real--it is okay. It is a position. It is a view of the world and government's role. It is not my view, but is that--and I am not being cute about it. Is that the intention of these expansions of Obamacare to people making hundreds of thousands of dollars who already have insurance?