Jeff Fortenberry

I introduced H.R. 5868, the RELIEF Act, to make water infrastructure repairs in the wake of such disasters more timely and cost-efficient.

I introduced H.R. 5868. We call it the RELIEF Act.

Congress was very generous to our State, in that we were able to fold underneath the disaster package.

Food security is foundational to stability and human flourishing.

An unlevel playing field tilted toward multinational corporations who have moved their manufacturing overseas probably to take advantage of lax labor standards and environmental standards for profiteering purposes.

This is one of the most important hearings going on in the United States Congress right now.

That is what I hear you saying.

It is very difficult to follow when you are using that too rapidly and not defining what they mean.

This creates a moment of opportunity rather than a moment of blame.

I have been concerned since the beginning of this impeachment process that it has been driven by a predetermined guilty verdict. It is unfair. It is wrong. And now, every future President, Democrat or Republican, will have to worry that…

I would urge you--I would like to talk to you privately about this.

I thank Chairman Bishop for yielding the time and for his eloquent remarks. I just want to rise, even though we are under the guise of opposition, to actually thank the gentleman for offering this amendment. We have had substantive…

There are no further speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time.

And that is the issue. So China, maybe they will see this. Our charge here is to try to do some self-reflection ourselves about the nature of our system and what we have done. But also, with the hand of friendship extended, say to the…

It has been hidden, but the consequences have been real. It is now on the surface. The day of reckoning is here.

That is an impact on us, but it is one we are going to have to live with because we have done it to ourselves. There are a couple of lessons here: fair trade, mutual respect, smart trade, both people benefit. Secondly, America's businesses…

So we run up the debt, and they hold the debt. And what is debt? Well, none of us around here really wants to face it--on our side of the aisle either, Republicans. It is a form of taxation.

Well, could it be that there are a lot of big-time transactions going on in our system itself that benefit a few big multinationals that have taken their manufacturing and planted it over there? They make the stuff, and we buy the stuff…

``That is why we won't deal with them.'' That is a sad reality, because we ought to be able to deal, using a fair set of rules, with people who may be doing something better than we are and we do something better than they do, and we can…

There is a small manufacturing facility in my district. They make a fairly generic, standardized product. I was a little surprised that they didn't have a relationship with the Chinese, and they said: ``Oh, no. That R&D is rip-off and…

It is impossible to have a spirit of bipartisanship around this particular issue, which is significant in that it reflects the deep cultural and philosophical divide in this country.

I think as we project out and try to re-imagine how things ought to be, laying the foundation for the roadmaps for peace are absolutely critical.

It is an ongoing tragedy that we all deal with.

I am very shortly--perhaps even today introducing a Northern Iraq Security Resolution, along with my good friend Anna Eshoo, a Democrat from California.

It is possible, it is urgent, but it depends on security.