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• Free trade should not mean free labor.

  Stephen F. Lynch#Free 67

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• Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.

  Stephen F. Lynch#Agreements 59

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• Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

  Stephen F. Lynch#Average 58

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• The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.

  Stephen F. Lynch#Coming 56

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• Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

  Stephen F. Lynch#Adverse 54

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• Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

  Stephen F. Lynch#Benefits 46

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• You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

  Stephen F. Lynch#Agreements 40

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• Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

  Stephen F. Lynch#Cafta 26

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• Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

  Stephen F. Lynch#American 24

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• I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

  Stephen F. Lynch#Members 24

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