Speech #1050060657

I would just ask that all my colleagues who feel that NAFTA has not gotten the job done for the workers of America to recognize that though there are problems. there are also opportunities. and with those opportunities comes Federal obligations to take advantage of those opportunities and create the jobs. not just sit here in the House and say. well. the jobs just are not there. it is not working out. and complain. But then look at these opportunities. as my colleague from California has pointed out. to build the infrastructure. to create the jobs. to make the opportunities so that the private sector can do what it does all too well. and that is to create the opportunities for those jobs. And I want to point out about border control. Mr. Chairman. I do not think anyone who sat on the House floor in the last 2 years has been more vocal than I have about border control. I think those of us who want to see border control need to recognize that there are rights and responsibilities of the Federal Government along this border. We need to control the border. but we also need to encourage the good things. We need to stop the illegal activity but also encourage the legal commerce that will make the border a prosperous opportunity for America rather than the problem that we have seen for all too long.