Bob Casey

Mr. Slayton, one of the things that our 2015 legislation did that has not been addressed already...

I know we are almost out of time, but does anyone else on the panel want to comment on these issues?

Once a person is subject to guardianship, the restoration of rights is, unfortunately, extraordinarily rare.

In 2018 not one single state in the country can identify its people under guardianship--incomprehensible in the Information Age

While guardianship is supposed to be protective, and might sometimes be necessary, it can also bring a loss of rights.

I want to thank Chairman Collins for holding this important hearing today.

I think for too long, we have been in a surrender mode.

Companies in China have been unable to develop this technology and were under pressure from their domestic car companies to get it, so their government stole it for them.

Everyone loses if we do not confront China.

The wage impact is substantial.

No city in the United States can claim to have the recipe for how to recover from huge job loss.

The trifecta in the quilt in China is what you alluded to, Senator Casey, which is the practice in China of making commitments that they do not ultimately keep.

The U.S. needs a sustained and coordinated strategy to address the threat posed by China.

China has made no secret about its strategy to push the rules to their limit and, when advantageous, break those rules outright.

Neither party, in my judgment, has had a strategy, and neither party has focused on a way forward.

In 2003, I worked with my congressional colleagues to ensure that CAPTA was written so that this, quote, 'appropriate referral,' unquote, and the development of a Plan of Safe Care for the infant was not wrongly interpreted as Congress…

I'm also grateful for the additional $60 million in funding that was included in the omnibus for CAPTA at my request.

I want to thank you and Ranking Member Murray for the work you've done, not only to bring us to this point with regard to the Opioid Crisis Response Act but also the hearings that have been undertaken over many weeks now.

I applaud your decision to launch a 301 into China's theft of U.S. intellectual property.

I urge you to make sure that a renegotiated NAFTA does not undermine, does not make it easier to block public health measures on food labeling.

I will strongly support a NAFTA agreement if it is good for workers.

Thanks. And I will have some questions for the record that deal with the NAFTA renegotiation on labor issues.

The costs of globalization are falling most heavily on workers.

I will certainly go to the Department of Commerce, or my people will, and we will sit down with them.

If confirmed, I would work to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans, including the LGBT community.