Chuck Grassley: “I support this amendment. For Senator Baucus and I, as managers of the legislation, were glad to have it go through in…”

“I support this amendment. For Senator Baucus and I, as managers of the legislation, were glad to have it go through in this fashion. When discussing trade and particularly this trade promotion authority bill, it is important to put the issue of child labor in the proper context. What I want to say as the bottom line, before I say everything above the bottom line, is that trade is the instrument to improve the economy of countries because economies that are not in poverty do not have child labor problems that countries in poverty do have. I will discuss this from two standpoints: One, how the bill was crafted even prior to Senator Harkin's amendment to deal with the issues of child labor, and also what we are doing as Government and the people of the United States to help in other ways on the issue of child labor.”