[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 44 (Tuesday, April 21, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2063]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   EXPANDING NAFTA TO CENTRAL AMERICA

  (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, somebody is inhaling. Since NAFTA, 
American TVs and typewriters are made in Mexico; American telephones 
are made in Singapore; computers are made in China and Japan. And after 
all this, the White House wants to expand this NAFTA madness to all of 
Central America.
  Now, here is how I predict it will work. Central America will get 
jobs and investment. Uncle Sam will get a pink slip, training voucher, 
and two free lunches to Taco Bell. Beam me up. This is not free trade. 
This is a joke, a dirty joke on American workers.
  I yield back another record trade deficit and 1.4 million American 
workers who filed individual bankruptcy in America last year, another 
record I might add. Think about it.

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