Marcy Kaptur: “I thank the very able gentleman from Wisconsin, Congressman Pocan, for organizing all of us this evening and for his…”

“I thank the very able gentleman from Wisconsin, Congressman Pocan, for organizing all of us this evening and for his indefatigable efforts to tell the truth about what is happening to the workers of our country and those around the world. I rise with you tonight because America--our wonderful country--has a huge ``good jobs'' deficit because we have a gigantic free trade deficit. Our trade policies export more U.S. jobs than U.S. products. More and more foreign imports come across our shores than we send goods out, and the gap grows wider every decade at extraordinary proportion. Never before in American history have so many good jobs been outsourced off our shores. America's workers have had income shortages--every family knows it--because America has had this jobs hemorrhage due to the flawed, Fast Tracked free trade agreements that have been ramrodded through this Congress. Since 1975, when Wall Street's free trade regimen began to lock down, America has amassed a $9.5 trillion trade deficit with the world. If you count up every year, numbers don't lie, and this has translated into a gigantic, unprecedented jobs loss of over 47.5 million lost American jobs--good jobs from coast to coast, living-wage jobs, jobs that have evaporated from our communities, jobs that have been shipped out.…”