"The Chinese for the last 15 to 20 years have used the international standards regime as a trade weapon."
"I don't think we can rely on that to save us, but I do think it's a factor in what's going on now."
"There needs to be some discussion about where we want to go."
"I want to protect semiconductors because that's the hill I want to die on."
"our beef is not with 1.4 billion Chinese people created in the image of God. It's with the Chinese Communist Party and their malevolence and their export of surveillance-state autocracies and their ge..."
"We have got to find a way that some of the wealthiest Americans in our country do pay their fair share."
"I think I am paying a fair share, but I agree with the Chairman."
"What we really have in this country is a supply issue in affordable housing."
"I hope we can still put some of those plans in place going forward, so if we ever have the kind of crisis we had around a COVID-type experience we have a more efficient system in place."
"I have worked since then with my great friends, Tim Kaine, to make sure we actually take out of Statutory Hall the statue of Robert E. Lee and replace it with hopefully Barbara Johns."
"I think the great strength of the Smithsonian is that we give different portals into what it means to be an American."
"I do think, you know, having a couple of years of COVID and the fact that there may be Members of Congress that are not as familiar with the Smithsonian..."