I am happy to rise today to speak about the three trade agreements that are working their way over to the Senate. At a time when unemployment is over 9 percent and we have over 14 million Americans out of work, it is past time for us to…

exports are absolutely critical to our economic growth in this country. In fact, there are nearly 10 million good-paying American jobs that are related to exports. The President, Members of Congress, and so on talk about that a lot. But I…

let me start by thanking the senior Senator from Ohio for his generosity in allowing me to speak now. I also commend Senator Hatch, who has been a leader in expanding exports and therefore creating jobs for many years, and again he is…

I rise today to recognize Cincinnati resident Bill Engeman, who has made countless contributions to the sport of rowing over the past 30 years. Bill will be leaving Cincinnati later this year for Lancaster, OH, and I would like to thank…

Unfortunately, I think some of these countries--all three of which are great allies of the United States: Panama, Colombia, and South Korea--feel as though the United States has let them down. We are going to move forward here, I believe…

Would the Senator yield for a second? The Senator talked about being at home and talking to his constituents about this, and I am sure all of us have stories like this, but I will tell you this morning we had one of our weekly coffees and…

I thank my colleague from Kansas, who has just made the case eloquently as to why we need to move forward. To answer his question, when you apply the metrics the President of the United States and his administration have used for these…

If you lowered the corporate rate and did so by getting rid of some of the existing preferences and those preferences also applied to the pass-throughs, it would seem unfair.

It is about the economy and jobs.

Building on what my colleague, Congressman Clyburn, just said and what Co-Chair Hensarling talked about earlier in terms of the impact of the deficit and debt on the economy.

I want to thank you all for your help today and the help you have given us up to this point.

I think Congressman Clyburn has just made a great point, which is the economy plays such a huge role here.