Jeff Merkley actually said...

"If you let the competitor have full access to a market but play by a different set of rules, you give a huge advantage to your competitor, and that means the loss of American jobs."

"Did our loss of manufacturing jobs as a result of the trade deficit with China increase significantly after their admission to the WTO?"

"I think we should be eliminating most of those requirements, but I also believe that we have to be careful about using a bilateral investment treaty as the vehicle to do it."

"Okay, that is very interesting, because what I saw was saying that had been stipulated, that they had permission to do that."