Jim McDermott: “You know what we are trying to do. How would you design what we should do at this point?”

It is not what happens in Mr. Kind's district, where about 80 percent of the people have advance directives.

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.

This is the kind of hearing where there isn't much disagreement about the fact that we want to have quality.