Political Quotes

“Before he leaves the floor, I want to thank Senator Brown for again and again putting in front of the committee and all Senators the importance of this issue. I just want to read a sentence from the paper yesterday that really puts a human face on this enforcement issue that Senator Brown has so often come back to. A quote in the New York Times says: ``Candy makers want to preserve a loophole.'' Now, this is the loophole that was closed in the Customs bill. The article goes on to say that ``Candy makers want to preserve a loophole . . . that allows them to import African cocoa harvested by child labor.'' What Senator Brown has said is without, in effect, this enforcement language, this vigorous enforcement language that is in the Customs bill, we would basically be back in yesteryear's policy, back in what we had for decades and decades, where youngsters would be exploited in this way. So we are going to talk about trade here for a few days. I think colleagues and--certainly my colleagues on the Finance Committee know that I strongly support expanded trade. I look at the globe. There are going to be 1 billion middle-class people in the developing world in 2025. They are going to have a fair amount of money to spend. We want them to spend on the goods and services produced in the United States. So we support expanding those opportunities, increasing those exports. The reality is expanding trade exports and enforcing the trade law are two sides of the same coin.…”