Timothy Roemer: “on August 3 in 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail on a new journey across the Atlantic, and he set sail with new…”

“on August 3 in 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail on a new journey across the Atlantic, and he set sail with new maritime instruments, a quadrant, an astrolabe, a cross staff, that helped him find the shores of the Bahamas. Today the new instruments to help us navigate to help our workers, to help our businesses, navigate the complicated world of international trade are access to OPIC, agricultural loans and Ex-Im Bank loans. That is why we should reject this resolution and allow us the opportunity for Boeing to compete against Airbus and sell our planes to Vietnam. Now Pete Peterson, a good friend of mine, has been mentioned as our ambassador who spent 6 years as a POW. Pete Peterson will never forget, nor will Congress forget the MIAs, and we are ripping up highways and searching in mountains for every clue to find those MIAs, and we will never forget the 58,000 soldiers that were lost in that war. But it is also time for us to move in a positive way to bring Vietnam into the community of nations.”