Political Quotes

“tomorrow Speaker Gingrich has promised that he would bring the fast track legislation to the floor of the House of Representatives. Some years ago, this Congress passed the North American Free Trade Agreement, a disastrous trade agreement that has led to more problems on the Mexican border, more unemployment in this country, more problems with food safety, more problems with truck safety, more problems with drug trafficking, and, ultimately, a bill that swelled, that took a trade surplus with Mexico of $2 billion and turned it into a trade deficit of $20 billion. The so-called fast track legislation which Speaker Gingrich is presenting to the House tomorrow is basically a procedural issue that will allow the extension of the North American Free Trade Agreement to the other countries of Latin America. For those of us who voted against the passage of NAFTA in 1993, we are particularly disturbed at the idea of expanding this failed trade agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement, to another couple of dozen Latin, Central and South American countries.”