Dick Chrysler: “Trade is a very important issue to this country, but we need to do it so we can compete on a level playing field with…”

“Trade is a very important issue to this country, but we need to do it so we can compete on a level playing field with all of our trading partners. In this Commerce dismantling act that we have passed here in the House, over 7 years the plan will save taxpayers $7 billion of their hard-earned money, money that will not be going to fund Secretary Brown's worldwide junkets any longer. And just getting rid of the Department of Commerce, which is the mother of all corporate welfare, giving away over $1 billion a year in the Department of Commerce, if you do not have a Department of Commerce for 25 years, you do not give away $25 billion of taxpayers' money. Dismantling the unnecessary and duplicative bureaucracy at the Department of Commerce is a hefty down payment that we can make today on our efforts to balance the budget. If the President is serious about getting rid of wasteful Government spending, as he indicated the other night in his State of the Union Address, he should join us in this effort to make Government more effective and more efficient.”