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Mike Michaud: You are absolutely right. As a matter of fact, when you look at what is happening, a lot of municipalities, their…

On the recordMarch 5, 2007
You are absolutely right. As a matter of fact, when you look at what is happening, a lot of municipalities, their primary business has been hit because of unfair trade deals. It has that rippling effect to other businesses within the community, but also the family structure. When you look at the fact that when Mills filed bankruptcy, and I have seen it in my own town, the divorce rate actually goes up. The alcoholism goes up, and you are losing that structure, and that is why we have to make sure that we do have fair trade deals. As we heard earlier today from Congressman Hare, he is not against trade deals. He just wants to make sure that they are fair trade deals. And that is what we have to do as a Congress is to make sure that we do have fair trade deals. I am very pleased to see that a lot of Members, new Members of Congress who have just come off the campaign trail, when they were campaigning, they were talking to their constituents, and they heard a lot about loss of manufacturing here in this country because of the trade deals.
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Mike Michaud
Democratic · Maine

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Discussing the impact of unfair trade deals on communities and families.

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