I thank my friend from Toledo. What she said about trading with democracies is so very important. Last year, during the debate on Most Favored Nation status with China, what was euphemistically relabeled PNTR, executives and CEOs who…

As my friend, the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), says, the biggest reason that wages have been stagnant in this country, understand for the 10 or 20 percent on top, salaries have gone up, but for most of the public, in the last 10…

The tragedy of these trade agreements is that workers are creating wealth for large corporations, and they are not sharing in the wealth they create. They are paid barely enough to live on. They will never be in the middle class.

I was a little disappointed a moment ago when my colleague, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cantor), spoke on this floor in support of the Trade Promotion Authority. We all, including viewers of these proceedings, Members of Congress in…

Trade and economic activity did not bring freedom to Nazi Germany, to Fascist Italy. It has not brought freedom in any way, all the trade and supposed prosperity, to Communist China. And, as my colleague points out, it has not brought…

Reclaiming my time, it is interesting that they have done that, because even though almost every newspaper editor, most of the large newspapers have supported all of these free trade agreements, because they are very conservative and very…

In 1996 Congress passed landmark legislation, and most of us know it as Kennedy/Kassebaum or HIPAA, that answered several difficult questions: How do we minimize coverage disruptions and barriers in the private health insurance market? How…

I am so far joined by my good friend the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell), who in his several years in Congress has been a leader on trade issues and fighting for American jobs and American workers and raising labor standards and…

Mr. Speaker, I want to make one comment before yielding to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Stupak). The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell) mentioned current trade policies and what happened in Doha and the steel industry. When we…

Yet as the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch) so deftly pointed out, much about trade negotiations and much, not just writing these trade agreements, but actually some of the appeals in front of the tribunals and the three-judge…

I want to reemphasize something the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Strickland) said. As this debate winds down into next week when the Republican leadership has said it will be scheduled for a floor vote, we have seen the kind of strong-arm…

When the gentleman and I started this conversation 3 or 4 years ago, 2 percent of food was inspected. This Congress continues to cut the budget on food inspection. And understand it is not just the adulterated food coming in. The way the…

Reclaiming my time, one CEO of a major corporation said a couple of years ago, ``I wish I could locate my corporate headquarters on an island that is part of no country.'' He does not mind being an American when he comes to this…

Just give more information to people. In closing, I thank my colleagues, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Stupak), the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Strickland), the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell), the gentleman from Massachusetts…

I am proud to join the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Visclosky) in support of this amendment. As thousands of American steelworkers have sadly discovered, the U.S. has become the world's steel dumping ground. During the 1998 steel crisis…

many people in the Chamber know about the problems of LTV, one of the third-largest integrated steel-makers in the United States, and its announcement that it may in fact close operations in Cleveland and other places across the country…

I know of no Member of Congress who opposes testing drugs for use in children. I know of no Member of Congress who believes it is okay that drug safety and efficacy and dosage information is available for adults but not for children. The…

on the evening of September 11, some gas stations in northeast Ohio and across the country raised the price of gas to $4, $5, even $6 a gallon. Many people called that war profiteering. Unfortunately over the last 9 weeks or so, something…

on Monday, the League of Conservation Voters circulated a letter urging Members to oppose the Presidential trade negotiating authority known as Fast Track, or trade promotion authority. League of Conservation Voters warned it would…

naming a Federal courthouse in Youngstown after Nathaniel Jones and Frank Battisti is an ideal way to mark the contributions these men have made to their profession and their communities. Judge Nathaniel Jones once said he ``saw law as a…

In response to the emergent threats of bioterrorism, Congress will take concrete steps in the coming weeks to strengthen our Nation's public health infrastructure. To fully prepare for the potential bioterrorist attacks, we will have to…

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Antibiotic resistance is a major health threat that does not receive the attention it deserves. When bioterrorism is a prevailing concern, we can no longer afford to ignore or downplay the threat of antibiotic resistance. Introduced in the…

many years ago I was attending church with my father in the early 1960s; and he pointed to a gentleman sitting in the back of the church whom he had gone to high school with, and my dad said during World War II, when my dad and most people…