Jeff Merkley actually said...

I expect we will hear from our State and Treasury Department witnesses about the value of U.S. contributions to the IMF and the World Bank.

I think it needs to be a multilateral response and not just a unilateral one.

I think of the whole WTO process as clunky... and deeply dysfunctional.

I could not help but recall an article I had read about how China is the major financer of new coal plants around the world.