[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18161]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 IT'S TIME FOR BALANCED AND FAIR TRADE

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to bring to the country's attention 
something devastating that is happening in northeast Wisconsin. Our 
paper industry, the very industry that grew the jobs and grew the 
future of northeast Wisconsin, is being devastated because of 
unbalanced and unfair trade with Communist China, who continues to 
export illegal paper.
  Just recently, a corporation called New Page closed the Kimberly 
Mill. You've heard of Kimberly-Clark and Kleenex. Well, Kimberly has 
had a mill since the 1890s.
  I am going to present every morning and every evening the stories of 
real people and their real damages. And one of the families is Don 
Wendel and his wife, Ann, with their two children, Kathleen and 
Anthony. He worked there for 30 years. ``Our daughter is a junior in 
high school, and the thought of paying for college with this uncertain 
future is daunting. We may have to sell our car we bought in March. It 
is shocking and disheartening that the owners, instead of researching 
options to make this mill profitable, made a quick decision to shut it 
down. It's causing such great devastation for everyone in Kimberly and 
throughout the Fox Valley in northeast Wisconsin.''
  Mr. Speaker, it's time we had balanced trade deals, not free trade.

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