Political Quotes

“I appreciate Mr. Brown's taking us through this. It is faster. It is tougher because it gets at the individual factory level. It is stronger because it stops those repeat offenders who come up with products using exploitive labor. I want people to know and have it highlighted in the Record that my take is that this, given what we have seen over the last 25 years, is far better than anything we have seen before. Look, the Senator and I have worked on a lot of enforcement efforts over the years. He will recall that at one point I chaired the Trade Subcommittee, and we found people tripping over themselves to cheat because they were merchandise laundering. It was a little bit different from this. We set up a dummy website just to try to keep tabs on all the people who were cheating. We would remember--and we didn't know whether to laugh or cry--that all over the world, people were coming forward to cheat. That was useful. It didn't come close to the breadth of what has been done here. Let me just ask a couple more specific questions because I have heard lots of people in all the campaigns and the like talking about whether this was modest or really a bold set of changes. Now we have just walked through how much stronger this is than anything we have seen in the last quarter-century. The gentleman mentioned how workers can use this hotline to enforce their rights.…”