Bernie Sanders: “There certainly has not. I have introduced legislation which would not allow any more funding from the Exchange…”

“There certainly has not. I have introduced legislation which would not allow any more funding from the Exchange Stabilization Fund to go to the bailout of Mexico without the appropriation and the authority of a vote from the Congress. But we have not been able to get that legislation on the floor of the House. When we talk about cynicism, let's talk a little bit about Mexico, let's talk a little bit about NAFTA, and I know that my friend from Oregon has introduced legislation to repeal NAFTA. What really gets to me is that a year and a half ago when there was a vigorous debate on the floor of the House, we had the Clinton administration fighting terribly hard for the NAFTA agreement, we had the leadership of the Republican Party fighting very, very hard for the NAFTA agreement, we had virtually every multinational corporation in America telling us just what a wonderful thing NAFTA would be for American workers and Mexican workers. We had the corporate media, every, underlined, every major newspaper in the America editorialized in favor of NAFTA. That is the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the L.A. Times, you name it. All of the establishment and the money interests said, ``Boy, NAFTA is just what we need.'' I ask the gentleman from Oregon [Mr. DeFazio] why he introduced legislation to repeal NAFTA. Has it not been quite the success that these corporate giants and pundits told us it would be?”