“The day when we can enter into a trade agreement that costs one job as a result of unfair trade practices by our trading allies is over. That needs to end. We need to defend the American worker and American manufacturing on the world stage.”

“I’ve got to say, colleagues, first and foremost I don’t know why we have to create a new transnational commission that has the ability to discipline the United States, to impose penalties on the United States, and create additional constraints on the ability of this great nation to function… So I’m disappointed that we are not going to be able to have that amendment called up now, because if they can block this amendment from being called up, this amendment can be shut out altogether.”