Ron Wyden

There ought to be more consultation with the Congress.

I hope that we will get this within a week.

Yes, I consider ZTE an espionage threat.

I was struck by the fact that during all of this, the Trump administration had a nominee, Mr. William Evanina, to head an important and new counterintelligence post.

I will tell you, respectfully, nothing I have heard this morning sounds like we are going to be on top of this anytime soon.

I do not think your department did a lot of homework at the front end, which is one of the reasons we are having the problems.

I would like to ask you this morning to commit to providing this committee on a bipartisan basis within a week a specific timetable and specific fixes so that the small businesses and the workers who are contacting us can really have a…

I think it is a real head-slapper, and it will certainly be baffling to these small businesses that check in with all of us on this committee for anybody to say that this process is going well.

The process on these tariff exclusion issues is, quote, 'going to be so unbelievably random, and some companies are going to get screwed.'

America's small businesses believe they are being held hostage in a bureaucratic twilight zone waiting to see if they are going to escape.

It is also frustrating to watch as the administration's trade moves seem more like knee-jerk impulses than any kind of carefully thought-out strategy.

Those are challenges that demand action, but taking action gets harder when you are surrounded by the specter of conflict of interest.

A strong, well-planned strategy on trade would bring the full economic might of the United States and our allies to bear on China's trade cheating.

You are taxing American families, you are putting American jobs at risk.

Tariffs on cars and trucks target our closest allies.

I call tariffs a tax on American families.

Step one when you're looking to sharpen our trade policies and fight for American workers is enforcing the laws on the books.

In many ways, China is getting away with its cheating scot-free. Instead of creating American jobs, this trade policy is creating chaos.

I agree that NAFTA needs renegotiating. I agree that the U.S. needs to step up with tough action against China's abusive trade practices.

If Commerce wants this process to work--and I think we would all like to see it work--it has to be fair and objective.

Will you commit to fully applying that law so U.S. workers and companies can get relief from unfairly traded imports?

Our trade enforcement has sometimes been too slow or too weak to keep up with the cheats.

I am committed to standing up for all American workers through tough trade enforcement.

This cannot be rocket science. Everybody has got to be in a position to have the facts to respond to what the other side is saying.

I fully understand the importance of due process in that context as well as the antidumping and countervailing duty context.