Charles Rangel: “Now, that was a real introduction. Mr. Speaker, I thought the name of this game was how to get economic growth. I now…”

“Now, that was a real introduction. Mr. Speaker, I thought the name of this game was how to get economic growth. I now find that this foreign policy, this trade policy, that normally set by the President with bipartisan support, is now dependent on just how much we hate these bums that are running China, and If I had only known that, I would not even know why we are doing business with Japan. I mean I wan younger then, but it seemed to me that they were not very nice people then. And Germany; my God, the atrocities that were committed then. And Italy; they were not considered friends of ours. My God. And when it comes to personal experience, those North Koreans, they were chasing me all around North Korea, and the Chinese shot me. And still we got sanctions against Cuba, and really they have not bothered me too much. But the truth of the matter is, what are sanctions, and what is most-favored-nation treatment? It is not most favored nation. We are saying, if the United States does not get there first, then our so-called friends are going to get there. We also are saying if we get out of there, our great friends will be in there before we can pull out our equipment. And so this is not a question about who you like and who you do not like, because I am certain that this is not going to be an anti-Communist type of thing with my friends supporting trade with North Vietnam, with my friends supporting trade with North Korea. My God, the Communists, all around us.…”