I very much appreciate the good work of my friend, the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders). Mr. Speaker, earlier this week the Committee on Appropriations passed an amendment to prevent the U.S. trade representative from using trade pacts…

at a White House news conference last week President Bush, called on this Congress to pass the Central American Free Trade Agreement this summer. This morning in this Chamber, next to me, the most powerful Republican in the House, the…

we just returned from 10 days in our district, and we found the opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement is even greater than before we left. People at home in our districts recognize our trade policy is not working. Just…

the President and Republican leadership were going to ask this Chamber to vote on the Central America Free Trade Agreement this week, but apparently because it does not have the votes, they will ask us to vote on it in June or July or…

President Bush is asking this Congress to pass the Central American Free Trade Agreement, a dysfunctional cousin of the North American Free Trade Agreement, in spite of the fact that our trade policy has failed. Twelve years ago, the U.S…

how many speakers does the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton) have remaining and, Mr. Speaker, who has the right to close? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Flake). The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton) has the right to close.

I yield myself 1-\1/4\ minutes. Mr. Speaker, I would like to share the words from the President who seems to have sent a different message than my friends on the other side of the aisle. President Bush said, ``Most scientists believe that…

could the Chair inform both sides how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Flake). The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) has 13 minutes. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton) has 11 minutes.

President Bush, Senator Frist, and the majority leader, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) are in a quest for absolute power in Washington, even if it means corrupting our government and the vision of our Founding Fathers. The White…

As the gentleman was talking, I am thinking about what he said a few nights ago. There is no protection for the environment, for workers, but there is very good protection in this bill for a group that is very powerful in this body and…

Taking back my time, it is no surprise, or no coincidence, that as this trade deficit has increased from $38 billion the year I first ran for Congress 12\1/2\ years ago to last year's deficit of $618 billion, that is the same trajectory…

Taking back my time for a moment, as we talked about a week or so ago, while the six presidents were flying around the United States on a junket paid for by the Chamber of Commerce and then met with President Bush and all, they mentioned a…

1 year ago, in late May, 2004 President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement, a trade agreement that extends the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, to 5 Central American countries and the Caribbean country of the…

I will close as I just listen to my friend talk about seeing this country as he has seen it up close, and we all have seen it. Again, these are all numbers, 200,000, 200,000, 57,000, trade deficits of billions and tens of billions…

nearly a year ago, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement, a one-sided plan to benefit multinational corporations at the expense of the United States and Central American workers, small farmers, and small business…

I enjoyed hearing my friend, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Gingrey), and his comments about Medicare. I know that my Republican friends care about health care. But unfortunately, they care more about the drug companies and the insurance…

Exactly right. I thank the gentleman. As I said, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Carnahan) has joined us. We are also joined by the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), who has worked on trade agreements for years; and…

this evening I am joined by fellow House Members, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich), the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Carnahan), a freshman, and other House Members who will join us shortly as we talk a little bit about the Central…

I stand today to announce and commend the 2005 winners of the Pulitzer Prize and take particular notice that four of this year's winners are graduates of Ohio's public State universities. Walter Bogdanich, with the New York Times, won the…

I thank my friend from Toledo, the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur). And the gentlewoman is exactly right. I have a chart just with the Mexico trade deficit. The gentlewoman talked about Canada, the U.S., all of this. And you can see, we…

as I hear you talk and I think about what has happened with workers around the world, one of the great things about our economy, one of the great things about our country is if you work somewhere, if you work for General Motors or if you…

today more than 400 union workers and Members of Congress gathered in front of the United States Capitol delivering a united message: vote ``no'' on the Central American Free Trade Agreement. This week, the presidents of Central America…

on the floor of the House a couple of days ago, the gentleman from Iowa (Chairman Nussle) said the Nation's Governors support cuts in Medicaid funding. In fact, the Nation's Governors wrote a letter to all of us as House Members opposing…

44 Members on the Republican side defied their party, not because some deep-pocketed lobbyist asked them to, but because fighting for people in desperate need was and is the right thing to do. Medicaid health and long-term coverage is…

last week more than 150 Republicans and Democrats, Senators and House Members, business groups and labor organizations gathered on Capitol Hill to speak out against the Central American Free Trade Agreement. This group of unlikely…