Honorable Earl Blumenauer
United States Representative, Oregon, Democrat
Representative Blumenauer, of the Third District of Oregon, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He serves on the Committee on International Relations and on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The following is excerpted from the November 13, 2006, House floor debate on H.R. 5602, extending permanent normal trade relations to Vietnam. For those of us who entered political life during theVietnam War era, the passage of normal trade relations and the final steptoward normalization of relations with Vietnam is nothing short ofastonishing. I was honored to accompany President [Bill] Clintonon his historic visit to…
