On the recordJuly 16, 1996
Mr. Speaker, the issue here is shall we grant to the people of Romania ordinary business, like trade agreements that we address to almost everybody else on Earth with very few exceptions. I am not here to defend Romania. No one could possibly do that. Romania is not a perfect country, but there are not many perfect countries at all on this globe, and I think that they are trying to do the best they can to get back into what is the normal westernized way of doing business and of treating their people. I know of no country in Europe that has possibly been more abused by its leaders in the last 50 or 60 years than Romania, but it is making progress. Mr. Speaker, our trade with Romania is pitifully small. It is not much of an economic impact one way or another. But we ought to get on with it, and we ought to normalize our relationships with Romania, and I support this piece of legislation.
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