Thomas A. Garrett: “The Chinese do a lot of things that don't make any economic sense.”

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

I am prepared to close if the gentlewoman from Oregon would like to conclude her remarks.

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.