Political Quotes

“less than a week ago, we were celebrating Earth Day. Today our country's environmental laws are under assault not only by the Gingrich extremists in Congress but also in the World Trade Organization, the WTO. The United States lost yesterday in the WTO. The WTO said our Clean Air Act violates international trade laws--yes, the same Clean Air Act that we celebrated last week. But our environment wasn't the only loser in the WTO. Workers in America's refineries lost, too. Workers in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania and Louisiana lost because they will have to compete with dirty gas imports from Venezuela and Brazil. Mr. Speaker, America lost yesterday in the World Trade Organization. It was our first loss; unfortunately it will not be our last unless we repeal some of these trade agreements.”