Honorable Dana Rohrabacher
United States Representative, California, Republican
Representative Rohrabacher, of the Forty-Sixth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988. He serves on the Committee on International Relations, where he chairs the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. The following is excerpted from the November 13, 2006, House floor debate on H.R. 5602, extending permanent normal trade relations to Vietnam. I rise in opposition to H.R. 5602 legislation to authorizethe extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment)to the products of Vietnam,and to establish a procedure for imposing quotas on imports of subsidizedtextile and apparel products of Vietnam. As wespeak, American soldiers…