[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20645]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



       PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISION TO CURE WHAT AILS AMERICAN ECONOMY

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, it is said that without a vision, the people 
perish. President Bush's vision for curing what ails the American 
economy is very simple. It is a vision of tax relief and expanded 
trade. Yesterday Republicans and many Democrats in this House came 
together to give the President the beginning of the first half of that 
vision as we passed nearly $100 billion in urgent tax relief in this 
year alone out of this Chamber and sending it to the Senate. But there 
is more work to be done, and that is the President's vision for 
expanded trade.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time that this Chamber gave the President the 
authority to negotiate trade agreements. We must give the President 
trade promotion authority. Over 100 international trade agreements in 
the last decade, the United States of America is a party to two. Pro-
growth tax policies, expanded markets for foreign exchange, this is the 
President's vision. This should be America's vision. It should be the 
House's vision.

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