Political Quotes

“this is generally known as the miscellaneous trade bill. We do this virtually every year. It consists primarily of those bills that, on their own, don't have any opposition, but standing alone, would have a difficult time in the legislative process. They are important in terms of their particularities, but taken as a whole, it represents an opportunity to put together, in a bipartisan way, those requests by Members in bill form to do what is absolutely the right thing to do, and, that is, those products not available in the United States and which are primarily materials used in making goods in the U.S. that do produce value added are subject to a tariff. So all it does is add costs. It is not in competition with anything in the United States, and so to help reduce costs we put together every year this list of trade bills. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”