Bart Stupak: “the gentleman spoke a little bit about the trade agreements. Now they are trying to push the Free Trade Agreement of the…”

“the gentleman spoke a little bit about the trade agreements. Now they are trying to push the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. In the past year we have done the Chilean Trade Agreement, Singapore. We have done a number of them, but yet we still see jobs leaving this country. When we talk about it, everybody says, well, we will enforce the laws that are on the books, but look at what just happened with steel. The International Trade Commission found unanimously, six-nothing, that there was illegal dumping of steel goods in this country. By illegal dumping I mean they are selling it in this country at less than what it cost to produce it in China or Brazil or the Ukraine or wherever it was, and they dumped it here. And the President said, all right, since you have harmed our industry, we will help our steel industry and the iron ore miners that I represent in Northern Michigan. We will put a tariff on it. That lasted 18 months and the President pulled out of the agreement. Now we no longer have these tariffs again, and you will see steel starting to get dumped once again in this country.”