You are putting a tax on Americans because we buy aluminum from our allies.

I think the answer is none.

Should a Member of Congress call you about that? Is that appropriate or is that not appropriate?

But what is the 8 or 80?

But 50 percent of what?

I would think that would be your job.

Because it takes a lot of electricity to produce aluminum and the cost of electricity is much too high in the United States to make that practical.

If your goal is to increase capacity in the United States, how big a tariff do you have to have in order to make it profitable for companies in the United States to pay for the increased electricity?

President Trump has set as a goal zero tariffs. He said at the G-7 meeting no tariffs, no barriers.

Uncertainty is a killer in that competition.

This means, if the bill we hope the Senate approves today is signed into law, Congress will have increased funding for the National Institutes of Health by $9 billion since 2015, a 30 percent increase.

In December 2016, Congress passed what Senator McConnell called, 'The most important legislation of the year,' the 21st Century Cures Act.

The Appropriations Committee is on track to provide record funding for the fourth year in a row to the National Institutes of Health.

the Department of Health and Human Services, working with healthcare organizations, develop and implement a plan to reduce the administrative burden in healthcare by 50 percent within the next 5 years.

Senator Murray and I will each have an opening statement.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.

Then what's the justification for any tariff on aluminum if it's not enough to create an incentive for aluminum companies to create more aluminum?

So we have 7.2 million people working in the automotive industry whose jobs are affected.

Did I understand you a minute ago that if you're able to resolve the NAFTA agreement, that that could be coordinated with the aluminum tariff?

So far as a Trump administration sabotage, if there was one, apparently it did not work because the predicted prices for 2019 are down by 10 percent.

It could have been down by 40 percent if we could have agreed on the Alexander-Murray negotiation that we had in which Democrats pulled the rug out from under it at the last minute by refusing to vote for the Hyde Amendment compromise.

If you are looking for why health insurance costs are so high in our state, I would suggest to my Democratic friends, they need to look in the mirror because they voted for Obamacare, and prices are up 158 percent since then.

a similar program, that Senator Alexander mentioned, focuses on adult patients called our Familiar Faces program and is showing comparable benefits.

My time is up, Mr. Chairman, but I will mention my suggestion of how helpful it would be to have a large number of Democratic and Republican co-sponsors for the bill.

The practical matter is we have a busy time ahead of us and even a partisan time ahead of us which isn't unusual.