On the recordJune 25, 2015
Let me thank Ranking Member Levin for always standing in the gap with a creative mind for trade but for workers. Let me acknowledge my colleague from Wisconsin and indicate that those of us who stand here today have several reasons for doing so. It was in 1997 that I traveled to the continent of Africa and looked at the rich resources of people and product and understood that that developing continent needed a bridge of opportunity. I am not against a bridge of opportunity, and therefore, I vote and support the African Growth and Opportunity Act and those African nations who have extended their hand of friendship to the United States to create jobs. At the same time, I have to represent some of the most impoverished and one of the largest groups of working people in the South in the State of Texas. Oh, I know that there is benefit. Texas is a State that fits appropriately for benefit in trade, but there are workers that I must be concerned about. I really stand here today to support the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
