Issue Position: International Trade

Issue Position

I have been fighting for a "fair trade" policy since I became a Member of Congress.

I was proud to lead the House efforts to defeat the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and most favored nation trade status for Communist China.

We are now seeing the results of a failed federal trade policy: shuttered factories, depleted tax bases, and families out of work.

Remember when NAFTA promised us millions of good jobs? Instead, we got the giant sucking sound of jobs leaving America.

NAFTA and similar agreements have devastated our great manufacturing sector, which has lost a third of its workers since 1994 as they are forced to compete on an unlevel playing field.

Multinational corporations are taking advantage of low-wage platforms in China, Mexico and other nations. Meanwhile, state-managed capitalist enterprises in nations such as Japan, Germany, and South Korea keep out American-made products.

It's time to wake up, stand up for our country, and renegotiate those trade agreements that move our jobs offshore.

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