Sherrod Brown: “When NAFTA passed, obviously the three of us and our friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter], voted no on it…”

“When NAFTA passed, obviously the three of us and our friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter], voted no on it back in 1993, but the people that supported NAFTA never really prepared, they never really prepared the border area for what was going to happen. They really were disingenuous about it, because they knew that there would be more traffic coming across the border, they knew there would be more pollution, as the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Pallone] says, more pollution along the maquiladoras, along the area near the border, and they simply did not prepare for building any kind of an infrastructure to deal with what was going back and forth across the border. When truck traffic is such that I believe there are 12,000 trucks a week, something like that----”