Angie Craig: “I ask my colleagues to join Senator Rockefeller and myself tonight in speaking clearly to our negotiators as they head…”

“I ask my colleagues to join Senator Rockefeller and myself tonight in speaking clearly to our negotiators as they head for the Doha Round in Hong Kong in December. Congress has made it clear time and time again that U.S. negotiators cannot bring back a trade agreement from the Doha that weakens U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty and safeguard laws that this Congress has put in place. These laws are widely recognized as critical tools to U.S. manufacturers, farmers, ranchers, and workers who sometimes are forced to fight for their rights to compete in fair environments. As we open up the world's trade, let us make sure that we have in place the tools necessary to keep it fair and balanced, and not negotiated away by our negotiations. It is a sense-of-the-Senate resolution with that instruction in mind.”