[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19153]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    U.S. TRADE POLICIES ARE FAILING

  Mr. DeFAZIO. Today Congress will vote on and approve so-called free 
trade agreements with Singapore and Chile. We find our Nation sunk in 
the hole of a $500 billion trade deficit, and Congress is going to get 
out the shovels and dig a little deeper.
  Mr. Speaker, 251,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost so far this 
year, exported from the United States; 53,000 jobs in May alone. We 
have a record 136.1 trade deficit for the first 3 months on a track to 
$550 billion trade deficit this year.
  Our trade policies are failing our workers and our Nation and our 
future. And the response of this administration and this Congress is a 
collective yawn and a vote to continue down the same disastrous path. 
It is pathetic.

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