Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman coming out. I see this as a series of Special Orders on China, because the American people need to know this. When they go to a shelf and buy something that is cheap, and they look at that and it says, ``made in China,'' they are feeding this trade imbalance. So they are partly responsible for that. As the gentleman well pointed out, if I fast forward to Xi Jinping, to the current era right now, the estimate is that there is a $300- plus-billion--I heard it was $400 billion--trade imbalance, I can't blame China for that. I blame our leaders since President Nixon. For the last 40 or 50 years, somebody has dropped the ball or taken their eye off the ball. If you allow a trade imbalance of $400-billion- plus, and then add to that the theft of intellectual properties that we have heard up to $600 billion--I am sure you saw the DHS as they brought in products made by our manufacturers that went to China that are now coming from China, and it looks identical, yet, it is made by China. So it is robbing that profit and the jobs from American manufacturers that should go here, and it has to stop. I commend the Trump administration for standing up to that. I think the gentleman brought this out.”