[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11385]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

  (Mr. CANSECO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CANSECO. Mr. Speaker, as I talk to residents of the 23rd 
Congressional District of Texas that I have the privilege to represent, 
the top concern about which I hear is the need to create jobs.
  For 2 years, President Obama and Washington liberals attempted to 
spend and borrow our way to a better economy. It simply didn't work. 
Trillions of dollars later, all we have is a national debt that every 
American household has over $120,000 of its share, and 29 straight 
months of unemployment at 8 percent or higher, the longest streak since 
the Great Depression.
  There's another way to create jobs: Pass the pending free trade 
agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. According to the 
Business Roundtable, these three agreements alone will create more than 
250,000 jobs. At a time when over 14 million Americans are unemployed, 
it's time to put the politics aside and pass these three job-creating 
agreements. The time has come to pass the Colombia, Panama, and South 
Korea Free Trade Agreements.

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