Political Quotes

“Now, that the distinguished ranking member on the Trade Subcommittee has yielded back the balance of his time, I will close. First of all, I want to thank Mr. DeFazio for introducing the bill and for his willingness and his really effective efforts to work with us. His staff also collaborated in bringing this bill to the floor. I also want to thank Congressman Camp and Congressman Brady and their staff for working with us. So let me just say a word. We'll debate trade issues another time. I think everybody here has spoken about the importance of two-way trade and ending the one-way street. The problem with the Korea agreement, as it was negotiated, was that when it comes to the industrial sector, there was no way it was even close to a likelihood that there would be two-way trade in vital industrial sectors. So far it's only been one way, and now steps have to be taken with the other provisions in the bill to make sure there's two-way trade in industrial, as well as agricultural, goods as well as opening up their markets to service products. I think we're now finished with this. We can discuss the moratorium on drilling some other day, and I now urge passage of this bill.”