Charles Rangel: “I would like to commend the Republicans and Democrats on this committee, the leadership, as well as the administration…”

“I would like to commend the Republicans and Democrats on this committee, the leadership, as well as the administration, to commend Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Eizenstat and Assistant Secretary John Talisman in the way they approached this very sensitive situation, which, of course, the World Trade Organization has made such an issue. We in Congress could have ignored the WTO ruling down in April much as the European Union has ignored many of the issues and beef hormones and other disputes. But we have sought to work it out diplomatically. When that has failed, we have now come with a legislative resolution.”