Dave Camp: “I have no further requests for time. Mr. McDERMOTT. I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, many people…”

“I have no further requests for time. Mr. McDERMOTT. I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, many people played a part in all of this. Nothing in Congress ever gets done by one person. Nothing ever gets done by one side or the other, and the good things that happen here always happen on a bipartisan basis. I'm sorry Ed Royce left, because Ed Royce and I worked together. One day, he called me. He said, Jim, I'm going out to Africa to look at some of the places in which the AGOA Act is working. Will you go with me? I said, Why? Well, he said, I need a Democrat on the trip. That kind of relationship is rare around here, unfortunately, and I think that people need to recognize that it is still going on--that this place runs on trust. Very early on in this session, I said to Dave Camp, When are you going to bring up the AGOA Act? He said, It's going to come up. I've asked him many times since, and he has said it's going to come up. So I told all of my African friends, It's going to come up because Dave Camp said it's going to come up. I'm really pleased to acknowledge that he kept his word, because what this place runs on is trust. If you don't trust somebody in here, then you don't do business with him. If you trust him, even if it takes him a long time and you have to poke him a bunch of times, you know that ultimately he's going to do what he said he was going to do.…”