Ron Wyden

Wages actually went down from June 2017 to June 2018.

If you compare what you just said to what Secretary Mnuchin said a year and a half ago, it is almost identical.

I would sure like to see if we could actually make some progress that would resemble being sensitive to the public interest.

I have not seen anything that the American people consider partisan about disclosure.

What this action has done is essentially blindfold intelligence officials and law enforcement folks who want to combat foreign election interference.

The answer is 'yes.'

I believe we do not want foreign actors interfering in our relations.

The Trump tax law has been in place for months, and the quarterly numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics have shown that real wages fell over the first half of this year.

Now we are hearing that there is a new effort for yet another tax bill that would once again be completely partisan.

A year ago, members of this committee on this side of the aisle said loud and clear, our preference is to have a bipartisan tax reform bill.

Mr. Desmond must demonstrate to this committee that he will remain independent and unswayed by political pressure from the Trump White House on this and other issues.

Here is where I think things are now: the committee has faced unprecedented levels of stonewalling from the administration on letters and policy issues that I never expected I would see.

I consider it patriotism and duty; and I was pleased to meet with both of you.

I also consider Chinese market manipulation to be a serious problem.

One out of five jobs in my state revolves around trade.

I think these tariffs are.

We all have to be in this together.

We should not have to wait another six years to come out with the kind of smart policy that I thought the Chair and I were striving for back in 2013.

I am very much in favor, as I know the Chair is, of developing domestic supplies of rare earth and critical minerals.

Making sure we have markets for our companies while not harming our land, air and water--those things are not mutually exclusive.

The President's trade strategy is almost impossible to determine, but what I know for sure is that we get a daily dose of trade chaos and that kind of chaos, particularly here, threatens access to minerals, and it will be American workers…

My trade philosophy has been really simple. Make it in America, grow it in America, add value to it in America, and then ship it somewhere.

The Trump Administration is now promoting an unfair policy on tariffs that means that because of his approach with respect to tariffs on critical minerals, U.S. companies will be needlessly hurt in their ability to compete.

I think we both know that reminiscing around here can just be insufferable.

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