Political participation in the electoral process is important for every American.

I commend the participants of AMA for its activity in gaining knowledge and making the necessary contacts for full involvement in the American political process.

I rise to congratulate the leadership of the American Muslim Alliance (AMA) and all the convention participants

My colleagues, please join me in honoring AMA and its convention participants for this conference that will hopefully motivate more Muslims to consider a future in public service.

The amendment is very narrowly crafted to protect state and local laws from preemption only by NAFTA and WTO bureaucrats.

Neither NAFTA nor the Uruguay Round of the GATT is a treaty. Neither received two-thirds vote of the other body, as the Constitution requires for treaties.

Wait until the trade panels start awarding damages against the U.S. based upon state laws--$970 million in damages requested based on California's MBTE ban.

the Kucinich-Ros Lehtinen amendment would provide valuable and needed protection to state and local laws made vulnerable by NAFTA and the GATT Uruguay Round to assault by foreign corporations, investors and nations.

The amendment would protect Kentucky's small-business set-aside law, which the European Union has said is WTO illegal.

Most of the state and local laws that are endangered by NAFTA and WTO are local economic development and public safety laws and have nothing to do with the commerce clause of the Constitution.

The consultation process does not give the states, or Congress, any control over the decision of whether to preempt state law.