Ron Wyden

Is your suggestion ultimately that workers should be responsible for increasing the PBGC premium base?

Well, multiemployer pension plans today are responsible for paying premiums. But the plans are financed by contributions from workers' wages.

The answer is disappointing, and what you are going to be up against if that is what you focus on is, you will have opposition from both workers and from companies.

You and your team--in my view--should make it a special priority to listen to whistleblowers.

It has been more than 2 years since Social Security has had a confirmed Inspector General, far too long by my take.

It is absolutely essential that the Federal Government wring value out of every single last dollar that goes into Social Security.

What the administration is delivering now is more chaos.

In the absence of real strategy and tangible wins on trade, perhaps it's time for the Congress to think about reclaiming that authority.

Under the Constitution, it's the Congress that's in charge of trade and tariffs.

Now, if the administration comes up with a coherent strategy that would result in more high-paying jobs here at home and greater access for American-made cars in markets overseas, I sure want to know about.

So when it comes to South Korea, the Trump administration over-hyped and under-delivered. That's the administration's entire record on trade in microcosm.

The President has made it a practice to get up in front of cameras, tout new trade deals, and reap splashy headlines, but those announcements are consistently hollow and the results underwhelming.

I have tried to advise this administration that they do not have the authority to do this, that Article 1 says Congress has that kind of authority.

What we have seen is a textbook case of how trade policy has been enveloped in chaos.

The approach I am in favor of is one that is based on concrete well-planned strategies that are actually going to create high-skill, high-wage auto manufacturing jobs and deliver for our workers.

In the absence of a real strategy and tangible wins on trade, perhaps it is time for the Congress to think about reclaiming this authority.

The President believes he has the authority to impose auto tariffs because the Congress gave it to him.

The worst it has ever been in the country's history.

It means uncertainty, which is what the whole theme of this activity is.

I think this comes directly from La La Land. It is almost incomprehensible to figure out how it actually works.

When you look at this tax bill, it is still more profitable to do business overseas than to do it in the United States.

The steel tariffs seem to be increasing company profits, but not increasing wages for the workers.

It is trade policy dictated by early morning tweets and bluster, and it may end up costing jobs and doing more harm than good.

But in my view, the administration is delivering--and it's pretty much right out of their playbook--a lot more chaos.

We have kicked the can down the road for a long time on some of these issues with China.