Max Baucus: “I would ask, what is the pending business before the Senate? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Blunt amendment No. 1520.”

I think it's very unwise. Get ratchet up the rhetoric to a point we're getting too close to the tripping point where something disastrous might happen.

It is hard to know how that would play out because China is pretty conservative.

We have to keep asking that question of the Chinese and of ourselves.

This is not a fixable Washington problem. This is a condition, like a chronic condition, that we are going to have to cope with.