01/14/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"Malaysia is a very problematic case with intermingled issues of corruption and lack of protections for marginalized and migrant populations."
"The executive branch must not send forward candidates for TPP who are in the lowest ranking in the TIP Report."
"We have got to break that idea, because, if, globally, the message we send is that, in order to meet the government officials of a country, that we cannot meet with human rights activists, political d..."
"would it not have the consequence of undermining the veracity of the TIP report in a way that other countries would say, 'Well, if it is--if I am important enough to the United States for trade or for..."