WALLY HERGER: “Well, I want to thank my good friend, Mr. Dreier, for setting this up this evening. This is so incredibly important.…”

“Well, I want to thank my good friend, Mr. Dreier, for setting this up this evening. This is so incredibly important. It's important to our Nation, it's important to our workers at a time when we're seeing our economy dipping, when we need to be able to produce jobs. And we look at how we produce jobs. Since last year, some 27 percent of our increase in gross domestic product came from exports. It's projected that just this year of our increase in gross domestic product, some 40 percent will be again from exports. And I wish it weren't true, but it seems like perhaps the best kept secret in our Nation today is that the United States is the largest trading nation in the world. We're the largest exporting nation in the world. I represent, as my good friend knows, a very rich agricultural district north of Sacramento in northern California.”