[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 152 (Tuesday, November 4, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H9870]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     VOTE ``NO'' ON NAFTA EXPANSION

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, let there be no mistake. The vote today 
on the Caribbean Trade Partnership Act is a litmus test from the White 
House. They want to pass NAFTA expansion, and the President is twisting 
arms. In fact, the President is reminding everybody that we must build 
a bridge to the 21st century.
  Now, if that is not enough to repave your off ramp, here is how that 
bridge really works. The bridge brings in Mexican tomatoes, Canadian 
beef, illegal immigrants, narcotics, and everything under the sun made 
in China and Japan. The bridge takes away American jobs. The bridge 
takes away American factories. The bridge destroys American families.
  Beam me up. That is not a bridge the White House is selling; that is 
a toll road leading to a dead end for American workers. Vote ``no'' 
today on that partnership act, vote ``no'' on NAFTA expansion.
  I yield back the liberal wage jobs we keep sending overseas.

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