I think that hits the bottom line. And I think it strikes the balance between the executive branch and the legislative branch on trade.

I am committed to ensuring that our trading partners respect those rights.

a sure way--a sure way--for any administration, and let me just underline it, to deal a potentially fatal blow to its own trade agenda.

I hope that you will commit this morning to brief Senator Crapo and myself and all interested colleagues on proposals to date within one week of this hearing.

I am concerned that it will be difficult to obtain the high standards we want to see in only four or six months.

My view is that NAFTA could use a complete overhaul.

Lower labor standards in other countries can affect American workers and businesses.

no administration, now or in the future, ought to expect to have my support for any trade agreement that fails to include provisions that protect the Internet as an open platform of commerce, speech, and education.

I'm concerned that manipulating voter registration databases could be used to try to sabotage the election process on Election Day.

the American people don't seem to be getting more information than what they already had before they showed up.

Allowing American financial services companies to enter the Chinese market establishes parity between our countries and will grow our economy at home.

Vote-by-mail has significant cybersecurity benefits.

the American people have spent the last several weeks hearing that the Senate will vote on its new version of TrumpCare by the end of the month. It is now June 19, and the American people are still in the dark about this bill. There is no…

I want to start my remarks on healthcare and what is ahead over the next couple of weeks in this way. For almost 7 years before I got elected to the Congress, I was the director of the Oregon Gray Panthers, which is a senior citizens…

This is a broken, common-sense-defying system of fighting fire.

This debate has been the longest-running battle since the Trojan War.

How do we finally end the gridlock?

I have some remarks to make with respect to healthcare that I will offer in a moment. First, I want to address the events of this morning. The shooting that took place in Alexandria today was a horrendous, despicable act of violence. The…

I believe the American people have had it with stonewalling.

If you're talking about meetings with a prominent Russian official and he says he doesn't really remember much, he doesn't know if there are any records, this kind of thing, it just cries out for those of us who are charged with oversight…

What we learned today is the country's top legal official doesn't have much of a grasp of the law, and he certainly doesn't understand what recusal is all about.

Stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable. And General Sessions has acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.

Americans don't want to hear that answers to relevant questions are privileged and off limits.

Stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable, and General Sessions has acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.

When you have two officials and one of them is straight forward and lays out a lot of details and the other one just seems to duck and weave and try to figure out how to escape accountability, I think the American people are going to say…