Robert Menendez actually said...

"I hope that today's last-minute hearing is not a sign that TPA will be forced through this committee without the open, broadly germane opportunity to first consider the bill."

"While many of us do not know yet how we will judge the final Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, I am sure you know that one of my priorities remains that we reach 12 years of data protection for bio..."

"if we agree that trade is an issue with major domestic and geo-strategic implications for the United States, then we should at the very least have another hearing after reading a TPA bill, which prese..."

"I am concerned that we are rushing too quickly to fast-track trade agreements that will have major economic consequences."