On the recordAugust 4, 1999
I think it is politics to help good people that deserve help from their government. As far as breaking precedent procedure, I think that has been done here over the course of a couple hundred years. I really do not think it is being done tonight, though, in a way of breaking precedent procedure, because there has been a type of hearing. There has been a one-year nonhearing on this issue for the steelworkers and their families. Oil and gas is included obviously in this, too. They are having some troubled times. I would also like to point out that the monitoring bill of Visclosky, Regula, et al. of this body, the White House put its hand into the Senate and killed it. That chance seems to be gone, so something has to be done. Tonight is the urgent need to do it. This is not about free trade. It is not about fair trade. It is about illegal dumping. Give the steelworkers a chance.
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