Jim McDermott: “I want a system of trade agreements that does not trump the common good, whether it is in Honduras or the United States.”

I intend to carefully scrutinize ideas that may not be in the best interests of the program or the beneficiaries.

We have made some substantive bipartisan progress recently. We need to build on our success.

This area is such a large part of our economy as well as such a large part of our question of national security.

None of us on our side who were involved in drawing it up thought for one minute that we had created the Ten Commandments off the mountain, which haven't been changed since Moses brought them down off the mountain.