Nobody said, hey Ron, we have an emergency here that requires that you go out and raise our power bills.

the proposal in the memo could actually increase rates nationwide up to $65 billion.

the President and Secretary Perry are doubling down on this commonsense defined plan to blow up the energy markets by issuing an emergency order to subsidize uncompetitive energy facilities, and this strikes me as a real abuse of power.

I do believe NAFTA needs renegotiating.

I agree that NAFTA needs renegotiating. I agree that the U.S. needs to step up with tough action against China's abusive trade practices.

it seems to me it has got to be a fair and objective process.

Our trade enforcement has sometimes been too slow or too weak to keep up with the cheats.

Instead of creating American jobs, this trade policy, in a nutshell, creates yet more chaos.

this cannot be rocket science. Everybody has got to be in a position to have the facts to respond to what the other side is saying.

Will you commit to fully applying that law so U.S. workers and companies can get relief from unfairly traded imports?

I am committed to standing up for all American workers through tough trade enforcement.

There is no question in my mind that China has ripped off our technological innovation.

After a year and a half of work, however, the Trump administration has managed to unite our traditional allies with China against us.

I think I mentioned to you, Ms. Karpel, we had a sting operation when I was chairman of the Trade Subcommittee, and we invited people to cheat, and all over the world we were being flooded with trade cheats.

the prerequisite to generating more trade is to sharpen trade enforcement and the tools that are on the books to protect American workers.

I fully understand the importance of due process in that context as well as the antidumping and countervailing duty context.

If Commerce wants this process to work--and I think we would all like to see it work--it has to be fair and objective.

For those of us who are pro-trade, it is particularly important that we get trade enforcement right, because so often in the past it has been either too slow or too weak; we have had cheats ripping us off.

In many ways, China is getting away with its cheating scot-free. Instead of creating American jobs, this trade policy is creating chaos.

will the three of you support vigorously applying this law so that our workers and companies can get relief from unfairly traded imports?

step one when you're looking to sharpen our trade policies and fight for American workers is enforcing the laws on the books.

it was not very long ago when I was on the floor of the Senate with the distinguished majority leader, Senator McConnell, and the two of us were making the case for our bipartisan bill to legalize hemp, which we are very much interested in…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to bring two baskets of hemp products to the floor of the Senate. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Hemp Farming Act

I very much appreciated the fact that you have been in discussions with us about how you are going to be attacking that.

I think that is going to be helpful for the long-term.