James Traficant: “I have heard a lot of comments about this steel dumping issue, and it continues to amaze me how we debate this issue on…”

“I have heard a lot of comments about this steel dumping issue, and it continues to amaze me how we debate this issue on a lot of sophisticated, philosophical grounds when it is basically a very simple issue. A number of foreign countries are invading our marketplace with illegal criminal trade practices. The White House, it was rumored, was going to come out with a response and that response, they said, would include no new initiatives. Well, that rumor is true. The White House response includes absolutely no new initiatives. So let us go over just briefly the old initiatives that we will, as diplomats and bureaucrats, sit down with the Japanese, the Russians, the Brazilians, the South Koreans, and we will ask them to please stop violating our laws. We are going to ask them to make another promise, another promise. And I can remember Richard Nixon and every President up to and including President Clinton who threatened Japan with sanctions, just Japan alone, if they did not open up their markets. Now, every President in our recent history threatened Japan, and evidently, every time Japan responded with a promise, they broke it. They broke it. Now, what is this policy? It is like putting a kid in a candy store and telling him, you cannot touch, you cannot smell and certainly you cannot eat anything here, but we want you to run free in this candy store and take a look at all of the goodies here, folks. I have submitted a bill I think is right to the point.…”