[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           GRANTING MFN TO CHINA NOT FAIR TO AMERICAN WORKERS

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I had planned to hold up a toy 
assault weapon when I spoke today on the House floor. House rules 
suggest I not do so.
  This toy gun was made in China. It is only a toy. But the 2,000 
assault weapons that the U.S. attorney in San Francisco found last 
month were not toys. They were the real thing, smuggled in by the 
Chinese Government or a company controlled by the Chinese Government. 
It is sometimes hard to tell the difference when you are dealing with a 
Communist country that uses slave labor.
  The assault weapons in California kill people. Those toys made by the 
Chinese in Chinese slave labor camps kill jobs, American jobs. The 
trade deficit with China is $34 billion a year and growing. Before long 
it will be greater than the deficit we have with Japan. MFN, most-
favored-nation status, is not fair to American workers. Kill MFN.

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