Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the further outsourcing of American jobs through more unfair trade agreements. The Obama administration is currently working on the next executive branch job-killing so-called ``free trade'' agreement. They are calling it the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. The contents of this agreement have been kept secret from the American people and Members of Congress and, as well, the general public wherever they might live. The administration is using the same old failed trade model called ``fast track'' to negotiate this, which means whatever they negotiate, we don't get to see, and then they bring it up here under a fast track procedure. That process ties our hands. They bring it up in one lump-sum vote, with no amendments allowed. And they usually do it in a lame-duck session of Congress after election and just try to ram it through, usually very late in the evening, often in the early morning hours. Since fast track was first used, the United States has accumulated red ink--trade deficits, more imports coming in here than exports going out--for nearly three decades. We have accumulated over $9 trillion in trade deficits. If you want to know why we have a budget deficit, it is because we have a trade deficit. We have outsourced too many jobs to low-wage havens. Go out and try to buy anything made in America; right? The American people know this inherently.…”