Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I rise today in strong support of the three pending agreements before this great body. This is a great day. This is a great day for America in the sense that we have before us an opportunity to create 250,000 jobs. That's the administration's own number. That is the number that has been verified, and I am a supporter of that number in creating jobs for Americans across this entire Nation. Now, when I came here as a freshman Member of Congress, there was a big question about the freshman class's thoughts about free trade. And I was proud to be part of an effort that got 67 out of 87 freshman Republican Members to sign a letter to the administration to say that we support free and fair trade. Because when it's free and when it's fair, the American workers will outcompete anyone in the world. And that is exactly what these agreements will do. In particular, with the U.S.-Korea relationship, not only will we be strengthening a strategic relationship, we will be creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. With that, I support this bill. {time} 2200”