Amory Houghton said "This piece of legislation loses no jobs. As a matter of fact, it does not even gain jobs. But we all know that 96 percent of the world's population live outside of the United States. They are our market in the future. We can take a look in terms of the impact of export jobs, and it ranges between 15 and 20 percent extra pay for those people who produce those products. This is very straight forward. We want more business. In order to get more business, we have to negotiate. In order to negotiate, we have to have the government behind us. This allows the government to get behind us." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 26, 2002

This piece of legislation loses no jobs. As a matter of fact, it does not even gain jobs. But we all know that 96 percent of the world's population live outside of the United States. They are our market in the future. We can take a look in terms of the impact of export jobs, and it ranges between 15 and 20 percent extra pay for those people who produce those products. This is very straight forward. We want more business. In order to get more business, we have to negotiate. In order to negotiate, we have to have the government behind us. This allows the government to get behind us.

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Amory Houghton

Republican · New York

Source

govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of legislation on job creation and international markets.

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