Political Quotes

“I want to reemphasize something the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Strickland) said. As this debate winds down into next week when the Republican leadership has said it will be scheduled for a floor vote, we have seen the kind of strong-arm lobbying from the President, from the President personally, from administration officials, Cabinet members, up and down the administration, throughout the administration, promises, all kinds of promises, everything from highway projects to support of legislation, to jobs, to all kinds of things that some of these people promise. We have also seen strong-arm lobbying from America's largest corporations. Every time there is a trade vote here, people at National Airport used to tell me they saw more corporate jets at that airport than anytime during the year, as corporate executives know that these trade agreements mean they can move more jobs overseas, make more money as they hire low-wage workers with no environmental laws, with no food safety laws, with no kind of worker safety laws.”