[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 11739-11740]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              DEFEAT CAFTA

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Madam Speaker, we just returned from 10 days in 
our district, and we found the opposition to the Central American Free 
Trade Agreement is even greater than before we left. People at home in 
our districts recognize our trade policy is not working.
  Just look at this chart. The first year I ran for Congress, our trade 
deficit was $38 billion. Today after NAFTA and PNTR and a series of 
trade agreements, our trade deficit is $618 billion.
  These trade agreements cost jobs. They hurt our families. They hurt 
our communities. They hurt our schools.

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  Madam Speaker, we should renegotiate the Central American Free Trade 
Agreement; defeat this bill when it comes to Congress; renegotiate a 
new Central American Free Trade Agreement, one that lifts up workers in 
all seven countries.

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