In 2011, I proposed an amendment that would require USTR to do a counter-notification on China, because China had not done its notifications under WTO as required.

From the witnesses what I hope to hear from each one of you is the areas, indeed, where we are making some progress, but maybe highlighting the three most problematic areas that you see that we need to address.

So is it that uncertainty that is the major impediment toward filing that or are there other impediments at this point?

Our lack of enforcement across the board will only encourage more breaking of potential rules.

So it becomes more of a funding and a priority issue for USTR than anything else.

I would like each one of you, if you would, to submit for the record a comment on this.

I think that this Administration has done a reasonably good job on enforcing trade rules, and we do not fund them nearly enough to do it.

What happens is I get more complaints about TSA's efficiency but more importantly their rude behavior and how they treat passengers than almost anything else.

I consider him a great man in the spirit of what you have shared here today.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to remove my name as a cosponsor from H.R. 3550. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from North Carolina? There was no objection. ____________________

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his leadership on this commonsense approach to solving a problem that was unintended. Mr. Speaker, when it really gets down to it, our firefighters and our first responders deserve…