[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9250]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             PASS THE U.S.-SOUTH KOREA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Our friend from Columbus, Indiana, the distinguished 
conference chairman, said it perfectly when he talked about the 
challenges that families are facing across the country in trying to put 
together their own budgets. He also pointed out the fact that for the 
first time in history since the implementation of the 1974 Budget and 
Impoundment Act, we have seen no budget provided from Washington, D.C. 
Well, Mr. Speaker, it's not surprising that that has been the case.
  How can you put together a roadmap of where it is you are going when 
you have no idea where you are going? And that's really where we are 
today.
  I am happy to say that we have a wide range of very positive 
proposals that we have put forward. Our whip just talked about the 
YouCut program. There are lots of things that we need to do. 
Tragically, today we are dealing with very anemic job creation and 
economic growth, and there is something that we can do that will help 
deal with national security as well, and that is the challenge of 
destabilization of the Korean Peninsula.
  Mr. Speaker, if we were to have the President send to us immediately 
the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, we could implement the 
largest bilateral trade agreement in world history, and it would create 
millions of good American jobs. Please send it up now so that we can in 
fact get our economy back on track.

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