[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17757]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    CAFTA WILL CAUSE LOSS OF MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the House of Representatives 
today or tonight will vote on ratifying the Central American-Dominican 
Republican Free Trade Agreement, also known as CAFTA. This treaty will 
follow earlier free trade agreements. These agreements caused the poor 
in all countries to do worse and the wealthy and the rich to do better.
  I have traveled, not as a Member of Congress, in a lot of these other 
countries, particularly Costa Rica, which is a beautiful country with 
great and friendly people. This CAFTA follows NAFTA and will cause loss 
of jobs in manufacturing in our country as well as the CAFTA-DR 
countries, just like it hurt the average folks in Mexico and in our own 
country.
  This CAFTA is not a dream, as it is called; it is really going to be 
a nightmare if you are a blue-collar worker in our country or in one of 
these countries.

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