Ron Wyden

Will the three of you support vigorously applying this law so that our workers and companies can get relief from unfairly traded imports?

I think I mentioned to you, Ms. Karpel, we had a sting operation when I was chairman of the Trade Subcommittee, and we invited people to cheat, and all over the world we were being flooded with trade cheats.

For those of us who are pro-trade, it is particularly important that we get trade enforcement right, because so often in the past it has been either too slow or too weak; we have had cheats ripping us off.

It seems to me it has got to be a fair and objective process.

The prerequisite to generating more trade is to sharpen trade enforcement and the tools that are on the books to protect American workers.

Instead of creating American jobs, this trade policy, in a nutshell, creates yet more chaos.

After a year and a half of work, however, the Trump administration has managed to unite our traditional allies with China against us.

There is no question in my mind that China has ripped off our technological innovation.

I do believe NAFTA needs renegotiating.

Nobody said, hey Ron, we have an emergency here that requires that you go out and raise our power bills.

I think that is way too logical and clearly that is not what is being done.

The proposal in the memo could actually increase rates nationwide up to $65 billion.

The average family would pay about $250 more per year and would not be getting anything.

The President and Secretary Perry are doubling down on this commonsense defined plan to blow up the energy markets by issuing an emergency order to subsidize uncompetitive energy facilities, and this strikes me as a real abuse of power.

I think that is going to be helpful for the long-term.

I very much appreciated the fact that you have been in discussions with us about how you are going to be attacking that.

We urge the Senate Finance Committee to report S. 2121 to the full Senate.

People in rural areas today feel like their local hospitals are already teetering on the brink of closing their doors.

If you wanted to turn rural America into sacrifice zones where hospitals shut down and people cannot get the health care they need, the quickest way to do it is by slashing Medicaid.

The Trump administration and half of Congress have spent the last 15 months desperately trying to make huge cuts to Medicaid.

What concrete policy ideas would you suggest this committee pursue to help attract more providers to rural America?

We can get a bipartisan package here--this is doable--a bipartisan product in a crucial kind of area.

I have very, very strong feelings, which I will not express again, about how damaging these Medicaid cuts would be.

You ought to be able to practice at the top of your license and particularly in these rural areas.

This just looks like a bureaucratic la-la land to me, trying to sort all this stuff out.