Tom Malinowski: “Absent TPP, there would be far less political cooperation between nations in shaping the rules governing this growing…”

I have no more speakers, and I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

As you acknowledge, Republicans had 2 years to do something about the deficit, and you acknowledge they did nothing. We just cut it by $300 billion.

The political reality is we would have done it in the House. There was no way to get a bill through the filibuster in the Senate that is fully paid for.

I came here with ambitious goals, of course. And I think we met a lot of those goals: the biggest investment in American infrastructure in our country's history.