Brian Bilbray: “I have to make an editorial note that this issue of what is a most-favored-nation status reminds me of the rest of the…”

“I have to make an editorial note that this issue of what is a most-favored-nation status reminds me of the rest of the ``Washington speak''. This is the city where you can have a 7.5 percent increase and they call it a cut; call something a balanced budget that the rest of America would not call a balanced budget; and now we talk about most-favored-nation relationship, and it is a misnomer. It is not about China or anything else. I think we need to talk about is Washington going to start speaking plain English like the rest of us? The most-favored-nation status to America happens to be Canada and Mexico. That is a fact of life. Some people may not like it, some of us are concerned about it, but I think the issue here about do we speak plain English when we start talking about our business in this body, I think there is a good argument of saying we should do it across the board, not just with the trade issue.”