Ron Wyden

I hope the Canadian Government changes course on this issue, otherwise the U.S. will need to consider all options for its response.

It means vigorous enforcement. It means never cutting corners the way the previous administration did on USMCA.

The administration needs to be engaged now before barriers like this are fully in place.

I will not accept that.

Make no mistake about it. These unfair digital daggers are just knifing American firms and the prospects for creating all of the high-scale, high-wage jobs that we want.

The Canadians then undermined that commitment with new regulatory barriers before USMCA went officially into effect last July.

Fortunately, the Biden administration is addressing all the outstanding issues so that USMCA lives up to all its promise about the challenges ahead.

Now it is up to the Biden administration to clean up the messes that I am going to outline now, that the Trump administration left behind.

The administration's efforts on that front are fairly disappointing.

I hope--and I press this case to the Canadians--that they change course on the issue. Otherwise, the United States will need to consider all options for our response.

Unfortunately, the administration would not listen. It was the middle of the year, and in effect they decided that a cake was baked before it was ready to come out of the oven.

That effort requires transparency.

The Democrats got down to work improving it, and as a result of those efforts, the text of it was the strongest trade agreement ever for worker rights, environmental protections, and particularly for trade law enforcement.

I think the response to that one has got to be a yes and you got pretty close.

I think there's got to be some accountability for spies for hire and that is going to be a central part of this discussion.

I would like a written answer to that one, Mr. Olsen.

We need to heighten the political pressure on China to work with the U.S. to disrupt these illicit trafficking flows

From a moral perspective alone, forced labor is abhorrent.

The use of forced labor effectively acts as a subsidy that puts American workers at a competitive disadvantage.

America is never going to out-compete China with crumbling roads and bridges and a country full of struggling workers.

Your ability to integrate the various pieces into a policy that lets us out-compete China is extraordinarily important.

Ensuring that American workers can compete with--and out-compete--China and other countries around the world requires us to invest in our workers.

Could you get that to me and my colleagues, the Chair and the Ranking Member, within a week?

How those of us who live in the West are so grateful to Vicki Christiansen for decades of extraordinary public service.

It might cost $20 billion. Is that your current figure based on your estimates, Chief?