Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I want to call the attention of my colleagues to something that happened last week. When we were fashioning this bill between the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, there was a very important meeting here in Washington with some of the employees from my district in Pennsylvania that had just been notified that a major textile company was closing down. Fifteen hundred people were notified that they would shortly lose their jobs. This last weekend I had occasion to visit with some union members who told me that as a result of the passage of NAFTA last year a very large manufacturing company had announced that rather than doing some of the manufacturing they had intended to do in my district to keep some very highly skilled workers working, they were going to move that operation to Mexico. If I were to have a motto today, it would be ``It's the jobs, Stupid.'' We have now passed NAFTA as national policy. We know we will take some jobs away from the American people.”