Bart Stupak: “To just pick up a little bit on what the gentleman had said on these trade initiatives and the WTO rules on antidumping…”

“To just pick up a little bit on what the gentleman had said on these trade initiatives and the WTO rules on antidumping, basically what it says is Congress instructed the Trade Representative, when you go to Doha next week not to give up on antidumping laws. We need them. We have other countries illegally dump their product in this country like they are doing right now with steel. It was very, very specific. But if we go to the text of the agreement that was in Doha this past week and go to paragraph 28, and I am quoting now, they are going to clarify and improve WTO antidumping and subsidy rules, an agreement not to use antidumping measures on the same issue once the case has been rejected. The total disregard for Congress's instructions on this issue, even after over 400 Members of Congress said do not give this up, do not give this up.”