Press release:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Kathy Hochul today spoke on the House Floor against the U.S.-Panama, U.S.-Colombia, and U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreements.
In her speech, Representative Hochul referenced a worker at the Buffalo Airport who had lost her job at a textile factory.
Below are Congresswoman Hochul’s prepared remarks:
“I’m here to stand up for the working men and women of the 26th District of New York. People like the woman at the Buffalo Airport who made my energy drink this morning. She told me she works there now after she lost her job of 23 years at a textile factory in downtown Buffalo. First, the jobs went South…and then overseas. As I left for my flight, she called after me, ‘keep fighting for our jobs…don’t forget us.’ Well, I won't forget her.
“If I thought any of these Free Trade Agreements would help people like the woman at the airport, I would be all in favor. But in Western New York, we know better. We were promised prosperity with earlier trade agreements; and while companies became more prosperous, the jobs were sucked away from our community, gone forever…to foreign shores.
“As they say in the immortal song made famous by The Who, we ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again.’
“I urge my colleagues to oppose these trade agreements.
“Thank you. I yield back the balance of my time.”
So far I have to say if Kathy
So far I have to say if Kathy keeps this up, I might actually have to change my opinion of politicians. Hopefully she continues in this direction and doesnt become corrupted by the environment she works in and the people she has to deal with.