[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 30 (Friday, February 16, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H1862]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                            STOP FAST TRACK

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, for generations Hershey's chocolate has been 
an American symbol. Soldiers abroad distributed it to smiling children. 
Across our country people everywhere recognize the distinctive shape of 
Hershey kisses. Now Hershey's, too, is being outsourced to Mexico, as 
the great sucking sound of outsourced jobs accelerate in our country.
  Yesterday, the Hershey Company announced it was moving 1,500 more 
manufacturing jobs to Mexico, terminating 1,500 U.S. workers and all 
the dairy farmers that supply work and product into that company.
  Hershey now joins the ranks of Hoover, Stanley, Champion, Ford, 
Chrysler, Huffy, Zebco, Levi's and Maytag, who have shipped thousands 
more U.S. jobs to countries where workers toil for starvation wages.
  Now President Bush wants to renew more of the same fast-track trade 
authority, to ship more of these jobs to Mexico and other trade rivals. 
He wants to sell our economy to the highest bidders in foreign 
countries.
  NAFTA, CAFTA, PNTR and its cousin agreements have broken the middle 
class. Congress is long overdue to stand up for them. We must take back 
the authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and start 
creating good jobs in our country again. It is time to stop fast track.

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