Jim McDermott: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

It has been a pleasure serving on this committee.

The work that the Innovation Center is doing will help us become more efficient and achieve our shared goals of containing costs.

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.