Sherrod Brown: “Thank the gentlewoman from Illinois. Thank our new freshman colleague, the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Melancon)…”

“Thank the gentlewoman from Illinois. Thank our new freshman colleague, the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Melancon), thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), and also the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Solis) and the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) for their leadership in opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and for everyone here in pointing out what has happened to our trade policy and how clearly when you go from a $38 billion trade deficit to $617 billion in a dozen years that this is not working. We need to strike out in a new direction.”