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Relating to the Consideration of H.R. 5724, United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act

Date: April 10, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Trade


RELATING TO THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 5724, UNITED STATES-COLOMBIA TRADE PROMOTION AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTATION ACT -- (House of Representatives - April 10, 2008)

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Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, we certainly do need a balanced, enlightened trade policy. But this debate is not about trade, it is about the guiding principle of the Bush Administration--arrogance--arrogance that has served our country so poorly.

This President, personally proclaiming himself to be a ``uniter, not a divider'' at the beginning, quickly transformed himself into the ``decider.'' And that lone decider has unleashed one divisive, disastrous decision after another on our land. Mr. Cheney's current chief of staff, he summed up this attitude very directly: ``We're going to push and push and push until some larger force is going to make us stop.'' Well today, our Speaker, backed up by this House, says ``Stop.''

The go-it-alone, disdain for allies, dismissal of anyone who has a different point of view, has left this White House isolated. It has left us with a disastrous war, and now Mr. Bush's recession.

We'll secure a more responsible, enlightened trade policy, but we won't secure it until we trade it for a new President.

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