Sherrod Brown said "I had planned to hold up a toy assault weapon when I spoke today on the House floor. House rules suggest I not do so. This toy gun was made in China. It is only a toy. But the 2,000 assault weapons that the U.S. attorney in San Francisco found last month were not toys. They were the real thing, smuggled in by the Chinese Government or a company controlled by the Chinese Government. It is sometimes hard to tell the difference when you are dealing with a Communist country that uses slave labor. The assault weapons in California kill people. Those toys made by the Chinese in Chinese slave labor camps kill jobs, American jobs. The trade deficit with China is $34 billion a year and growing. Before long it will be greater than the deficit we have with Japan. MFN, most-favored-nation status, is not fair to American workers. Kill MFN." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 19, 1996

I had planned to hold up a toy assault weapon when I spoke today on the House floor. House rules suggest I not do so. This toy gun was made in China. It is only a toy. But the 2,000 assault weapons that the U.S. attorney in San Francisco found last month were not toys. They were the real thing, smuggled in by the Chinese Government or a company controlled by the Chinese Government. It is sometimes hard to tell the difference when you are dealing with a Communist country that uses slave labor. The assault weapons in California kill people. Those toys made by the Chinese in Chinese slave labor camps kill jobs, American jobs. The trade deficit with China is $34 billion a year and growing. Before long it will be greater than the deficit we have with Japan. MFN, most-favored-nation status, is not fair to American workers. Kill MFN.

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Sherrod Brown

Democratic · Ohio

Source

govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the impact of trade with China and advocating against most-favored-nation status.

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