Lloyd Doggett

But I think insofar as your opening comments emphasize the importance of focusing on the predatory practices of China and on supporting a targeted approach where we are not going it alone, but working with our allies, that you have it…

I would hope that our witnesses will focus their attention while they are here in Washington on those many Republicans who have not joined that targeted approach.

The majority of the Republican Caucus has not joined your letter to the President, including one-fourth of the Members of this Committee.

I urge you to reconsider your position on ISDS. Continuing to include ISDS in NAFTA makes good policy and political sense.

There is no reason foreigners should be given more rights than American citizens and American companies have.

The Trump administration's proposal and the corporate pressure behind it hold the potential to handcuff public health interests for the decades.

I think that it is wrong to limit the power of American States and local governments, as well as foreign governments to address this challenge.

One of the major reasons that I have voted against a number of previous trade agreements is the way they have been subverted by various special interests to serve their own selfish agenda to the detriment of our public health.

NAFTA is very important in Texas. It was signed in the district that I currently represent in San Antonio.

I would just say that all of us as Members of Congress are eager to return to our families as soon as possible across America, but our DREAMers are left with fear and uncertainty about returning to their families and about their future…

We are here solely because of Republican blunders. Hardly the first blunder. Many more blunders will need correcting from this trumped-up partisan bill. If President Trump blunders into signing it today, it will trigger $25 billion in…

A zombie of supply-side economics is returning from the dead. We know it didn't work for President Bush. We know it didn't work in the Reagan era. They are bringing it back again, saying, if you just give a little more to those who have so…

It is really unfortunate that the only tax bill we get a hearing on is this modest one.

This hearing, like the last hearing we had in the Subcommittee, is really an alternative to bringing anyone from the Trump administration here to explain the totally confusing Trump trade policy on NAFTA, and on other trading arrangements…

I think that for the subcommittee and for our full committee to not summon the administration officials here to explain their position on NAFTA and on other aspects of our trade policy really just empowers President Trump to make this very…

We begin to understand why Trump calls himself ``the king of debt,'' because there is plenty of debt that will be added onto this plan. For Trump and his cohorts, fiscal responsibility is just a political slogan that they use to undermine…

You don't have to raise taxes. For one of those different ways, just enforce our current law. If someone receives an alimony payment, require documentation so they will know and the IRS will know that that money is due. That will raise a…

Where is the evidence today? It couldn't be produced in committee. Where is the evidence for one of these changes? Where is the evidence for freezing this funding? We proposed to fully fund it, and I proposed to do it with a simple tax…

Sixty percent of American households get 16 percent of the tax benefits today on retirement plans.

We know that there are millions of our neighbors across America who do not have adequate savings for their retirement.

I am disappointed that the testimony of Seth Hanlon... was rejected for this hearing.

I believe we need a thorough consideration of it with a wide range of opinion.

The importance of today's hearing should not be understated.

I agree with you completely about retroactive provisions.

I think each of these offer a potential for discussion but not if they are only to be crumbs off the table.