Reply #35: Here you go.

[Reciprocity]

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“The Republican Congressional Leadership and the Bush Administration have made it clear where they stand: They stand with foreign trade bureaucrats and not with the working people of this country who suffer from illegal foreign trade,” Byrd said.

Last week, the Senate voted overwhelmingly -- 71-20 -- to back the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA), more commonly called the Byrd Amendment. But, in the final budget package negotiated between the House and Senate Republican Leadership, the CDSOA is repealed after two years.

“CDSOA was enacted to restore conditions of fair trade, so that jobs that should stay in the United States are not destroyed by unfair foreign competition,” Byrd stated on Tuesday. “Now is the time to hold foreign unfair traders more accountable, not less! There is no need to repeal the law today, two years from now, or ever.”

“If our trading partners don’t like this trade law, the solution is not to repeal the law. If our trading partners are offended by the law, I have only two words for them: Stop dumping!” Byrd argued.


http://byrd.senate.gov/newsroom/news_dec/cdsoa_repeal.html