Political Quotes

“I rise to congratulate my colleague, cochair of the Joint Economic Committee, for her report on the importance of the contribution of exports to our economy and for the Export-Import Bank. The report she is issuing today has a picture of cargo container ships leaving the Port of Miami. I could say that this picture could be any number of ports around the United States of America, certainly in my State, where one in three jobs is related to trade. I very much appreciate the Joint Economic Committee highlighting at this point in time how important the export economy is to the U.S. economy. My colleague comes from a similar State where we like to say we make a lot of great manufactured products--and we are very proud they are sold in the international marketplace--but now is no time to basically curtail credit agencies' ability to help make those sales a reality when we have had fabulous U.S.-made products. So I very much appreciate the Joint Economic Committee's release of this report. It is showing that our economy--even though we faced this very disastrous financial collapse 6 years ago--that report basically shows that last week the trade deficit continued to decline. A headline just recently said: ``Trade deficit at 6-month low as exports climb.'' So it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that a growing middle class around the globe is an excellent opportunity for us to sell U.S. manufactured products.…”