Anna Eshoo: “today our Nation, and I believe this Congress, stand at the beginning of a new century; and with it comes the new…”

“today our Nation, and I believe this Congress, stand at the beginning of a new century; and with it comes the new opportunity to export our products to the largest emerging market in the world. America today is enjoying unparalleled economic successes. We are the envy of the world. Economic growth is sustained. Unemployment is low. Inflation has been kept at bay. The new economy has brought new wealth and new opportunities to our Nation and its workers. I am proud to represent a district which is home to Silicon Valley and where the high technology industries are the primary contributors to the economic engine of our new economy. But this issue is larger than any one industry or any one congressional district. President Kennedy said, ``Economic isolation and political leadership are wholly incompatible. The United States has encouraged sweeping changes in free world economic patterns in order to strengthen the forces of freedom, but we cannot ourselves stand still. We must adapt our own economy to the imperatives of a changing world and once more assert our leadership.'' These words hold truth for us today. This legislation, I believe, is good for the American worker; and it opens the greatest market for the products they make to a much greater market.”