This legislation would ensure that trade agreements include enforceable standards to promote living wages and ensure sustainable production methods.

I think it is really important for us.

If countries like the U.S. do not push back and stand up against the massacre of ethnic minorities and lead the world, who will?

Congress should act on S. 2566, the Level Playing Field in Global Trade Act of 2018, introduced by Senator Merkley.

We need to, therefore, make sure that rules in trade, rules that relate to labor standards and environmental standards, are fairly enforced.

What really makes America great is our entrepreneurial spirit, looking at problems as challenges and challenges as opportunities.

Now is the time to change course.

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China is not the only country engaged in predatory economic practices, but it is a clear leader in flouting international standards.

I do find this interesting because, often, a coastal state such as mine says that this must be doing us a lot of good because we have all these links overseas.

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.

Absolutely. But they are very happy with the situation as it is with low tariffs to our market and high tariffs to theirs.

That is an issue that I put on the floor of the Senate as an amendment, and we did get bipartisan support to close that loophole.

This legislation would create a statutory requirement for the periodic production and submission to Congress of a national economic security strategy.

All we essentially see in this chart, in summary, is, as product penetration went up and increased substantially after 2001, American jobs lost to that trade deficit continued.

It is a pleasure to be here with you, working in a bipartisan way to look out for America's interests and to protect American workers from being hurt by international predatory economic practices.

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.

So we should recognize that as a competitive challenge.

Myanmar has just engaged in a massive process of ethnic cleansing.

This is not about undercutting our free market economy or promoting excessive government intrusion in the private sector.

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

I think it would get their attention. I am not saying necessarily that is directly the right thing to do, but the fact that we have set up a system where we continue to give them far lower tariffs in our market than vice versa says…