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Byron Dorgan: No, I only have a minute and a half. Several hundred companies have benefited, not just a few. If one wants to run…

On the recordDecember 20, 2005
No, I only have a minute and a half. Several hundred companies have benefited, not just a few. If one wants to run America's trade policy exclusively through the sieve of the World Trade Organization, I will say get a big armchair, sit back, have a good time, and say: Whatever you want, WTO. That is not my belief. My belief is we ought to invest in this country's strength. When American companies are victimized by unfair trade, we ought to in my judgment have the good sense, as we have in this legislation we call the Byrd law, to use the tariff to recompense them.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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