Ron Kirk: “The exclusion of U.S. beef from the Asian market, as you know, over the last 8 years has been crippling to our beef…”

I think the President has said--is correct; the best way to address this is part of comprehensive immigration reform.

By extending PNTR we can create new markets for our people and support the political and economic changes that the Russian people are seeking.

the most important distinction between this and China, Senator, is that, in the case of Russia, we insisted that they put in place their laws to implement the WTO rules before we would allow them to accede to the WTO.

If we don't repeal Jackson-Vanik, to the degree that Russia is opening up liberalizing its services market, investment market, we lose all of the benefits of that.