I thank the gentleman for the time.

Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to all of the raw trade deals coming to the floor tomorrow because our families cannot afford the loose of any more jobs.

Based on a myth that there is some sort of “World Free Market”, they call these deals free trade agreements, but Madame Speaker, there is nothing free about them. These NAFTA type deals are not free to our workers who will lose their jobs because of them. They’re not free for our communities when more of our factories are boarded up and more careers are packed up and shipped overseas as some of our multi-national corporations with no allegiance to America search the world over for the lowest wages to be found.

Common sense tells us that pittance wages paid to workers in other countries like low wages here will not empower people to buy our products. Enough is enough, Madame Speaker.

Some of the same people here on the floor claiming theses deals level the playing field for American manufacturers and jobs supported NAFTA too. And how has that worked for us? Since NAFTA was signed, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, we’ve seen approximately 5 million manufacturing jobs lost. Over 350,000 of those jobs from my state of Ohio. These are not free deals. They are raw deals for the American people.

Make no mistake, the fact that we’re seeing more trade adjustment assistance being offered for passage alongside these deals is an admission that more Americans are about to lose their jobs with these deals. At a time when so many are struggling to find a job, why would we pass a deal that we know will result in job loose?

It’s unconscionable that we would pass a deal with Columbia where they have allowed trade unionist and those standing for civil rights to be killed with them. And if we pass a deal with Korea according to the economic policy institute, we could see our trade deficit increase by another 14 billion dollars and see another 159,000 jobs lost.

This raw deal would be particularly bad for my district and districts around the country that support our domestic auto industry, auto suppliers, and parts makers.

Right now Korea has the largest trade imbalance when it comes to cars only importing 5% of cars sold. And this won’t change that. In fact it will only make it only make it worse by allowing Korea to keep out American cars if they don’t meet certain standards.

Madame Speaker, enough is enough.

This bad trade deal pours salt into the wound already festering within American manufacturing sector and it will destroy opportunity for people right here in the United States. The American people don’t want more bad free trade deals that aren’t free. I encourage all of my colleagues to vote against this horrible package of trade deals and I yield back my time. Enough is enough. “