Political Quotes

“I think my colleague has given an excellent example of exactly how fast track works when she is talking about countries and how it relates to the same kind of thing with families. The bottom line in a government setting is that no one wants to go into a negotiation and put their cards on the table and get the best deal if they do not know at the end that the deal is a done deal. Now, they recognize that they have to go back to their countries and get approval of it. But they do not expect to take that agreement back to the country and have it picked apart, amended, changed, and added to. And that is exactly what would happen if we did not have fast track authority. It becomes like any other bill that is introduced in Congress; it gets amended, it gets changed. Now, fast track does allow the Congress a very significant role in the whole process of this negotiation.”