Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, Congressman Rush is always calling the Nation to its higher principles. I thank him so very much for sharing our Special Order this evening. Congressman David Cicilline of Rhode Island is here on the floor. I also want to thank Congressman John Garamendi for sharing his hour with us. The focus tonight really is on jobs and trade, an issue on the mind of millions and millions of Americans. We have been joined by Congressman Brendan Boyle of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well. I will place this up for the Nation to see. It is a chart showing just U.S. trade relations with Mexico and Canada and what has happened since the deal was negotiated back in the early 1990s. It was also prepared before that, during the 1980s, when the United States actually had some trade surpluses on this continent with both Canada and Mexico. This shows, in 1994, when NAFTA was actually enacted. You could see the United States begin to kind of fall into deficit. Then we had just a precipitous trade deficit, including the collapse of the peso after the NAFTA trade agreement was signed. This is serious business for our country because this red ink represents lost jobs, lost productive power, and communities in disrepair across this country, where production units were just picked up and put either north or south of the border. Tonight, we want to focus on President Trump's Manufacturing Jobs Initiative, which he announced during the campaign and afterwards.…”