[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, two days ago developing nations 
walked out of the World Trade Organization meeting, exposing 
irreconcilable differences between poorer developing countries and the 
U.S., the European Union, and Japan. Rather than dealing with the still 
broken promises of the past, U.S. negotiators wanted to press forward 
on a privatization agenda, restricting governments' ability to act in 
the public interest and giving more rights to multinational 
corporations at the expense of workers all over the world, in this 
country and abroad and at the expense of the environment.
  The world obviously now knows with what U.S. citizens already know. 
The Republican trade policy does not work, that President Bush's desire 
to expand NAFTA to the rest of the world is antiworker, 
antienvironment, and hemorrhages jobs. That is why 10 percent of 
manufacturing jobs in this country have disappeared since President 
Bush took office because of these trade policy.
  The U.S. cannot continue pushing this antidevelopment, antiworker, 
antienvironment agenda on the rest of the globe. The failure of the 
talks in Cancun is a victory for the people of the world, a reality the 
Bush administration cannot ignore. The Bush NAFTA trade model is 
broken. We should fix it.

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