Jim McDermott: “It seems to me this hearing has two issues in it, and we can't deal with both of them.”

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.

It includes a new tool known as the rapid response mechanism that, when used, allows us to promptly raise concerns with the Mexican and Canadian Governments when there are allegations of worker rights violations.

We are trying to figure out where we are going as a country and how we can turn our investments and innovation into sustainable models moving forward.