[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15374]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          DEFEAT THIS CAFTA AND RENEGOTIATE A CAFTA THAT WORKS

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), 
majority leader and the most powerful Republican Member of Congress, 
promised last year that we would vote on the Central America Free Trade 
Agreement. December 31 came and went. He promised we would vote on it 
by Memorial Day; we did not. He promised we would vote on it by July 4; 
we did not. Now the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) promises that 
CAFTA will come before us by the end of the month.
  The reason we have not voted on the Central America Free Trade 
Agreement, the reason it has been 13 months since the President signed 
it, six times longer than any trade agreement in years, is that 
Republicans and Democrats, business and labor, food safety advocates, 
environmentalists, and religious leaders think the Central America Free 
Trade Agreement is a bad idea.
  Defeat this CAFTA. Let us renegotiate a CAFTA that works for small 
farmers and ranchers and small business and workers and 
environmentalists and religious leaders in all seven CAFTA countries 
including ours.

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