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John Baldacci: “Their experience is that they paid $400 or $500 for what would be $1,000 in this country. It is no different than what…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2000
Their experience is that they paid $400 or $500 for what would be $1,000 in this country. It is no different than what has been happening in agriculture with the pesticides and other types of products that are manufactured in this country, are sold overseas, and trying to be able to reimport those because of a permit process, not because of safety, not because of any issue as it may pertain to the impacts of the health of the individual, but just because of those issues, our farmers have been disadvantaged, our seniors have been disadvantaged, and as the gentleman from Oklahoma has said, it seems that NAFTA is a one-way street. They build the wall, and nothing gets in, but everything tends to come out.
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John Baldacci
Democratic · Maine
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Discussing the impact of drug pricing and NAFTA on farmers and seniors.

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