Thank you for your ongoing leadership to achieve critical retirement policy reforms for Americans.

I introduced the Encouraging Americans to Save Act, to get more help to the working folks who need it so badly.

The system doesn't do nearly enough to help working people of modest means get ahead, but individuals at the top are able to game the rules to abuse taxpayer-subsidized accounts with their pricey accountants and lawyers.

I encourage the Senate Finance Committee, and, ultimately, Congress, to implement into law the Automatic IRA Act and the Encouraging Americans to Save Act.

The issue for a lot of lower-wage workers is, can they afford to put money into retirement?

Now more recently, Americans were reminded about long-running retirement rip-offs by ultra-wealthy individuals advised by the priciest accountants and lawyers.

Before anybody ever heard of COVID-19, it was already far too difficult for Americans to save for a dignified retirement.

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

I will not accept that.

Now it's up to the Biden administration to clean up the messes the Trump administration left behind.

One of the achievements of USMCA was to bring NAFTA into the 21st century.

the Biden administration will have to work to make sure our dairy farmers have the access they were promised.

Mexico made commitments to improve the rights and conditions for its workers, but it's moving too slowly on the implementation of key reforms to its labor laws.

Canada is joining a list of countries that are unfairly targeting and discriminating against innovative American employers with digital services taxes.

In Oregon, we talk about getting trade done right as a way to protect our workers and create high-wage, high-skill jobs.

I expect the Inspector General to be aggressive and unrelenting. Get the records, the emails and the memos. Run the transcribed interviews and question everyone up the leadership chain. Leave no stone unturned and make as much public as…

USMCA became the strongest trade agreement ever for worker rights, for environmental protections, and for enforcement overall.

ILAB should spend at least $30 million annually of USMCA Appropriated Funds on worker organizing and union capacity building in Mexico.

That effort requires transparency.

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.

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.

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.

You have to hold them to their commitments.

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

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.