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On the recordNovember 7, 1997
And more dried milk if you are a dairy State. That is exactly right. So whether it is high technology at one end or whether it is agriculture at the other end, those talks are very vital to us. And then finally, in the year 2000, investment services. The gentlewoman from Connecticut comes from a State where this is extraordinarily important. Insurance and investment and brokerage services, those are absolutely vital. Financial services are absolutely vital. The United States again is the leader. And we have gotten the World Trade Organization to agree that these are the three areas that are going to be the next areas for discussion for lowering the barriers to our trade in goods and services with the rest of the world. And now, if we turn away from fast track, if we deny fast track to the President, and I think we need to explain exactly what that means 'fast track,' but if we deny that, we are saying to the rest of the world, we are not going to be at the table, we are not going to be discussing this or negotiating on behalf of the United States.
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Jim Kolbe
Arizona

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Discussing the importance of trade negotiations and the fast track authority for the President.

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