[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25282]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE U.S.-PERU FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

  (Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join 
my colleagues in speaking out against the U.S.-Peru Free Trade 
Agreement. This is not a choice between trade and protectionism. It is 
a choice between fair trade, which can benefit working families across 
the Nation, and unfair trade, which benefits the wealthiest few at 
expense of the rest of us.
  I cannot support, and I urge my colleagues not to support, this Bush-
negotiated Peru Free Trade Agreement. It uses the same North American 
Free Trade Agreement model that has already failed working families 
here and abroad.
  I feel like I am at a used car lot and the dealer is trying to sell 
the American people a beat-up old lemon with a new paint job. Well, we 
learned with NAFTA that there are no refunds for the American people 
when they are sold a bad bill of goods.
  Let's learn from our mistakes and reject this Peru FTA junker. The 
American people deserve trade that works for working families, and the 
Peru FTA won't give us that. Vote ``no'' on the Peru FTA.

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