Sander Levin: “The country needs more than sympathy on this issue, and we need to do more than get it.”

Raising taxes on one and a half million working families by eliminating their refundable tax credit, as marked up by the Committee, will not lift families up, it will push them down.

I think a lot of the responses were not correct. But in any event, to compare the two is, I think, a serious mistake.

I must confess I find the discussion we just heard appalling, that we are paying people not to work...

I think, unless practice is showing that changes are made before we vote both in laws and practices, that essentially it will be difficult and should be difficult to pass NAFTA.