Jim McDermott: “And in my view, that is like the Indian tribes in the West where we always knew when a tribe was going to end when they…”

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.

This committee has the potential of doing more good for the American people than perhaps any other single subcommittee in the Congress.

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