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Pete Sessions: “I thank the gentlewoman. Perhaps more important than that is that you build a friendship between groups of people who…”

On the recordApril 28, 2014
I thank the gentlewoman. Perhaps more important than that is that you build a friendship between groups of people who really not only share cities, where we have sister cities that grow up and are born of each other, but it is a merging together of America to make us closer with the rest of the world and then our values of not only the rule of law, of intellectual property, but also, I think, of the thing of which we know most--trade policies. A tariff is a tax, and we are reducing taxes, or tariffs, and taxes--costs--on people for products, goods and services and food. That is where I believe agricultural products from America will be king around the world.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas
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Apr 28, 2014

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