James Traficant: “Let us talk about a little bit today on what the Constitution says, Congress shall regulate commerce with foreign…”

“Let us talk about a little bit today on what the Constitution says, Congress shall regulate commerce with foreign nations. The Constitution does not say that Congress shall moderate the behavior of our trading partners. The facts are clear. China steals American technology. China dumps their products in our markets. China denies access to American products. In addition, China uses false made-in-America labels on their cheap products deceiving American consumers. To boot, China usually opposes Uncle Sam at the United Nations. China sells nuclear technology to our enemies. Is it any wonder China enjoys a $40 billion trade surplus? All this talk about jobs, we are a net 700,000 job loser. The American people have done all they could. They elected a Democrat President. There has been no change. They elected a Republican majority, there has been no change. I commend the Republicans who have taken this effort. The bottom line is, the American people are apathetic, they do not see much difference between either party, and this is a defining issue. It is completely evident to me, very clear, the Congress of the United States will not do anything about trade until there are two Japanese cars in every garage and a Chinese missile pointed at every American city. How many more welders do we retrain? How many more minimum wage jobs do we create? I might understand this program if someone finally confessed and told me Jack Kevorkian was running our trade program.”