Sherrod Brown: “In summary, I appreciate the gentleman from Michigan joining me tonight on this special order. We have seen the results…”

“In summary, I appreciate the gentleman from Michigan joining me tonight on this special order. We have seen the results of NAFTA since 1993. We have seen job loss, we have seen huge trade deficits with Mexico, we have seen problems with truck safety, we have seen problems with food safety, we have seen more illegal drugs going across the Mexican border into the United States. With all of that, I think it is particularly important that we stop and get NAFTA right before expanding it into ever increasing numbers of countries. There are too many problems that too many newspapers, too many radio stations, too many citizens, magazines, Members of Congress, elected officials all over the country, too many problems that all of us have pointed out with the North American Free Trade Agreement to just in a halfhearted sort of way to continue to expand NAFTA into countries like Chile, Argentina and all over. Madam Speaker, I would add in closing that we again are asking for three changes in NAFTA so that we can get it right before we continue this discussion of expanding NAFTA.”