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“Mr. President, first, I want to add my comments to those by my friend from Florida, Senator Rubio, about China. I remember years ago, when I was helping to lead the opposition to China's admission into the World Trade Organization, when American CEOs came to this body and said one after another to Members of Congress that they wanted access to billions of Chinese consumers when what they really wanted was access to hundreds of millions of Chinese workers. U.S. companies, as part of a business plan, consistently shut down production, whether it was in the Florida Panhandle or whether it was in Northeast Ohio, and moved those productions overseas. They enriched that Communist government and gave China the wherewithal that Senator Rubio talks about now. That is the importance of the CFIUS legislation we did yesterday in the Banking Committee that Senator Crapo, Senator Van Hollen, and I worked on. It is the importance of many of the issues that Senator Rubio raised, so I thank my colleague from Florida. Mr. President, I rise to oppose the nomination of Brian Montgomery. He has been nominated by the President to serve in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as an Assistant Secretary of Housing and as the Federal Housing Commissioner. If confirmed, Mr.…”