[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11681]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                   PASS PENDING FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

  (Mr. DOLD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOLD. Madam Speaker, our number one priority here in the United 
States Congress is jobs and the economy. I'm happy to say that I think 
that's the number one priority on both sides of the aisle. So the 
question then becomes: What other things can we be doing each and every 
day to move forward that agenda?
  In my district, the 10th District of Illinois, we've got 650 
manufacturers, representing 80,000 jobs. It's the third largest 
district for manufacturing in our Nation. Forty-six thousand of those 
jobs rely on exports.
  The President has said that he wants to double exports by 2014. We 
certainly want to help him in that process. For every billion dollars 
that we increase in exports, we create 6,250 jobs, according to the 
statistics. The Korean Free Trade Agreement alone would add $10 billion 
of GDP to our bottom line.
  It is important--I would say critical--that we pass the pending free 
trade agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia so we can 
expand our markets and create jobs here at home.

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