Ron Kirk: “Again, the first step would be for us to recognize that our granting Russia permanent normal trade status is decidedly…”

We frustrate our own efforts when our visa laws are so--can be so restrictive that it makes it difficult to support our underlying ambition to sell more around the world.

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.

The exclusion of U.S. beef from the Asian market, as you know, over the last 8 years has been crippling to our beef industry.

Terminating Jackson-Vanik and extending PNTR to Russia is in the absolute best interests of American businesses, workers, and innovators.