Statements from Members of the U.S. Congress tagged {Colombia} "Free Trade"
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
| Location: | Colombia, Panama |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Time to Act on Trade Is Now |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | According to research conducted by our colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee, the inaction of these trade agreements is costing America jobs and market access. |
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Pass the Colombia Free Trade Agreement |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | Colombia's one of America's strongest allies. With our help, they've instilled rule of law, defeated the FARC terrorist group. They've created labor rights and lowered their crime rate, violence rate by 90 percent. |
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Reaffirming Friendship and Alliance between the United States and Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | While we should be reaffirming our alliance today, we should also be strengthening that alliance by passing the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement. |
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Free Trade |
| Author/Source: | Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | 1,253 days ago, an agreement was signed between the United States of America and the Government of Colombia to open up the market so that we could see jobs created for workers at Caterpillar, John Deere, Whirlpool, and other very important industries righ |
| Location: | Colombia, Panama |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Restoring Job Growth in America |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | The President has announced a national export initiative, but yet there have been no substantive steps to move this forward. Why not implement a small business initiative to help our small businesses export to Colombia? |
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
| Location: | Colombia, Panama |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | What about the free trade agreements? |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | In a moment of candor, President Obama acknowledged that the lion's share of the problem was on his side of the aisle, that in fact it was politics in the Democratic Caucus that was preventing that from coming to the floor. |
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
| Location: | Colombia, Panama |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Three pending trade agreements that will create jobs |
| Author/Source: | Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | Send to Capitol Hill three pending trade agreements: Panama, Colombia and South Korea. We could create jobs in the manufacturing sector, in the service sector, in the farming sector of our economy. |
Monday, January 11, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Rueda de prensa del presidente Álvaro Uribe Velez y del representante a la Camara de EU, Eliot Engel al termino de la reunion en Cordoba |
| Author/Source: | Presidencia De Colombia |
| Brief: | Cuando venia camino a la finca del Presidente, tras el aterrizaje del avion y estabamos a bordo del bus, pensaba que estabamos todos juntos, los colombianos y los americanos en el mismo bus, sentados juntos, intercambiando conversaciones |
Monday, November 23, 2009
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | [PDF] Letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from 33 members of Congress |
| Author/Source: | U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | We request that you allow an up or down vote on this important trade agreement without further delay |
Friday, October 23, 2009
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | I rise today to reaffirm my long-standing support for the Colombian people, the Colombian-American community in south Florida, and to urge my colleagues to approve the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement as soon as possible. |


