Benjamin Cardin People Quotations

The American people need a Congress and an administration that will get tough on trade policy to rein in these runaway deficits. When you look at trade deficits in the context of growing foreign ownership of our national debt, you see that we're increasingly beholden to the very countries whose markets we'd like to open to American goods. Unless we reverse this dangerous trend, we'll soon find ourselves without negotiating leverage to promote our trade agenda.

We should be looking at this from a surgical point of view. A lot of people who think they would like to repeal the estate tax should put it in the context of fiscal policy. We'll have a huge hole in the federal treasury.