Political Quotes

“I thank Representative Deluzio for his leadership and for convening this group and focusing us on an agenda of economic patriotism. The reality is in this country, and as you know in western Pennsylvania, we have watched industry after industry leave the country for China and Mexico. Western Pennsylvania won us our freedom. They produced more steel than Japan and Germany combined in World War II, and yet today we have got 4 percent of the world's steel. China has 50 percent of the world's steel. Aluminum left, paper left, and textiles left. Town after town in this country was hollowed out since 2000, and 90,000 factories have closed. That doesn't just mean jobs leaving. We have all heard the stories of people whose families were destroyed. The reality is that these factories left and people faced suicide. One of the folks in Warren, Ohio, told me 13 people, because of these plant closures, took their lives or faced severe depression. Our country has watched for 50 years. Rosa DeLauro didn't watch. She was speaking out against these bad trade deals. However, for most of American history in the last 50 years we have watched the hollowing out of these communities, and we watched wealth pile up in districts like mine in Silicon Valley and New York. My district has $14 trillion of wealth. The income inequality in this country soared.…”