WASHINGTON, DC.- House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and Ranking Member Jim McCrery (R-LA) today introduced H.R. 6560, legislation establishing a “2 for 1" textile and apparel allowance program to be developed and administered by the Secretary of Commerce. Under the program, when producers purchase a certain quantity of qualifying U.S. fabric (2 square meter equivalents or SMEs’) for apparel production in the Dominican Republic, they will receive a credit equivalent to 1 SME).
This credit can then be used to ship a corresponding quantity of eligible apparel (pants and other bottoms) from the Dominican Republic to the United States duty-free regardless of the origin of the fabric from which the apparel product is made. The provision included in the Rangel-McCrery bill has the broad support of U.S. textile manufacturers.
“This is truly win-win legislation,” Chairman Rangel said. “This long overdue program will create incentives for the purchase of U.S. textiles, supporting businesses and workers here at home while also providing valuable benefits to apparel producers and workers in the Dominican Republic. It is easy to see why industries in both countries have been supportive of this initiative.”
“This important expansion of the U.S.-CAFTA-DR fair trade agreement, fully supported by the U.S. textile industry, is an opportunity to expand U.S. manufactured exports to the region and demonstrates how these agreements can benefit U.S. workers,” said Ranking Member McCrery. “The United States economy has already benefited significantly from CAFTA, and our trade deficit with the region before the agreement went into effect has now become a trade surplus. This legislation will provide another opportunity to grow U.S. textile exports and add to the U.S. trade surplus with the CAFTA-DR region.”
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
I am so surprised Rangel can get so much work done after being kicked out of his office
From: United States
Rangel = Pig
Written by: juanb, 23 Jul 2008 9:45 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Considering that we hardly produce any fabric here; Thanks a lot for nothing.
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Will it shrink ? ..........answer.. Do you want it to ?
Written by: Belial, 23 Jul 2008 10:10 AM
From: United States, Texas
"Considering that we hardly produce any fabric here; Thanks a lot for nothing," an extremely uninformed poster writes.
0000
Most of the reactionaries in this forum suffer from a blockheadedness that is breathtakingly stunning.
In any case, here's a 61-page paper on the important DR textile industry which is mostly in the zones. Enjoy.
http://www.nathaninc.com/nathan2/....d%20Apparel%20Competitiveness.pdfFrom: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Commie stooge is out of his rat hole early today ....welfare check must have arrived
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Dated 2004 it is deader than disco....report is from the era when the earth was still cooling and the dinosaurs walked ........ Rangel being one of the dinosaurs
Written by: Belial, 23 Jul 2008 10:28 AM
From: United States, Texas
The elected DA [Dominican American] leaders in the USA and the huge, 1.3 million DA electorate/constituency is finally emerging as an independent political force in the US politics.
Whither DAs.
Either the alliance of black, brown [mostly MAs (Mexican Americans) and PRs], and white liberals or the filthy, slimy, stinking GOP reactionaries and CA [Cuban American] lunatics?
There are no other viable alternatives and stand alone like a babe in the woods is not an option.
Although LAs [Latin Americans], DAs have a separate agenda from PRs and CAs. The DAs are closer agenda-wise to the MAs.
Obama, Jackson, and Rangel are the key guys for the AAs. Richardson talks most for the MAs. And Serrano is the man for the PRs. Gore and Clinton have clout with the white liberals.
Written by: Belial, 23 Jul 2008 10:38 AM
From: United States, Texas
"Dated 2004 it is deader than disco....report is from the era when the earth was still cooling and the dinosaurs walked ........ Rangel being one of the dinosaurs," GC defends his ignorant friend
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So, this fool, GC, believes global cooling, not warming, was going on in 2004.
Ignorance.
Rangel ... the sitting chair of the US House Committee on Ways and Means, the most powerful committee in the legislative body ... is a "dinosaur."
Stupidity.
GC, where do you sit?
On his pot, making noises and smells, both of which thrill him.
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Obama has now been exposed for the empty shiny suit that he is .....this guy has flipped on so many issues the lefties are bailing out left and left ....his Iraq and Afganistan tours were totally without news people and he did not give one press conference ....it is apparent he is way over his empty little head...Just another shiny suit politician
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Charley is a 78 year old throw back to a more civilized era of politics...and he was smart enough not to get fooled by Barry the partially white guy...He backs him now out of party unity
Written by: Belial, 23 Jul 2008 11:47 AM
From: United States, Texas
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Barack Obama attracting 45% of the vote while John McCain earns 42%. When "leaners" are included, it’s Obama 47% and McCain 45%
http://rasmussenreports.com/publi..../daily_presidential_tracking_pollThis is the bigoted and slanted GOP's Rasmussen poll.
GC, your opinion is almost as worthless as you are.
Democratic pollsters have Obama 5 points in front.
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another cheap shiny empty poltical suit....Barry Obama...the partially white candidate.....Like Shultz of Hogans Heroes....He knows nothing....He sees nothing and He hears nothing and when he speaks He says absolutely nothing
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Klink get yat idiot out of here
Written by: Belial, 23 Jul 2008 12:11 PM
From: United States, Texas
"another cheap shiny empty poltical suit....Barry Obama...the partially white candidate.....Like Shultz of Hogans Heroes....He knows nothing....He sees nothing and He hears nothing and when he speaks He says absolutely nothing .." GC blabs.
0000
Can anybody on earth or off interpret or translate what this fool is talking about?
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
GC= point of view that scares you Belial, you don't know what it is because it takes independent thinking not repeating the manifesto of commie crap
Written by: Belial, 23 Jul 2008 12:55 PM
From: United States, Texas
"GC= point of view that scares you Belial, you don't know what it is because it takes independent thinking not repeating the manifesto of commie crap," texasshoe runs to help out his friend, GC.
oooo
But texasshoe, how can GC know anything if his knowledge comes from sergeant-of-the-guard, Schultz who himself repeatedly admits that he knows nothing about this and this is everything.
How can GC think independently or dependently if he doesn't know anything.
For you, texasshoe, to believe and say such nonsense means that your head is full of cappie garbage.
From: United States
Sounds like good work on Rangel's part if it goes through. Not sure what it has to do with Obama, or even less with GC's illusions that Obama has lost steam. Obama is collecting buckets of dollars while McCain has to run his campaign on welfare and whine that the media likes Barry better. Give me a break...
But back to DR is there anything I'm missing here Belial, because win-win sounds rather correct on my congressman Rangel's part?
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I use the wealth of experience without the burden of knowledge
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manhat How does Charlie get so much done without his office ....I thought he was kicked to the curb from one of his many influenced peddled apartments....and please dont tell me you are impressed by Obama....and all his wonderful accomplishments or you have been spending to much time at Slyvias
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No allusions I think he will win but nobody is fainting at his speeches anymore
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He is a typical empty suit demo with no resume...and the lefties are getting squeamish
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the rag trade in the DR has been dead for some time maybe this will help ....but I doubt it
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Rangel is a likable rogue and a gentleman
Written by: zak325, 23 Jul 2008 4:10 PM
From: United States
Rangel is a dinosaur, the last of his kind and eventhough he is a party hack, he has earned his influence, which is why he supported Hillary, but in keeping with Darwinisim, he had better adapt or perish. As for Obama's popularity, that hasn't changed much, what has is the novelty of his candidacy. Thus far, he delt well with the attacks against him, the flip flop phony issue hasn't stuck. McCain was a victim of the very snakes who tepidly support him now and has largely stayed away from the Goebbles tactics (the big lie). His basic decency will help him lose in November.
From: United States
zak I like that closing sentence. GC of the field we began with about a year ago on both sides of the aisle I do think Obama turned out the most impressive. That may not mean much amongst a pack of politicians but there it is...
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Zak and Manhat you have both said very well what is actually happening....Obamas splendid appearance at this time is just that really splendid and makes me feel proud to have lived through the turmoil of the last 60 years plus....That said I hope Obama grows into something much more than he seams to be in fact I Hope he has half the courage and character of the old guy....If he does the USA will be in good shape
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London's Sunday Times called it 'the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.' A terrorist force that once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and central regions of Iraq, has over two years been reduced to a mere 1,200 fighters, backed against the wall in the northern city of Mosul.
The destruction of al-Qaida in?Iraq?(AQI) is one of the most unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare.?We can thank President Bush's surge strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and Democratic leaders in?Washington?by increasing our forces there instead of surrendering.
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We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in charge there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our military in?Iraq?who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and convinced them?America?was their friend and AQI their enemy.
Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from there.
Now, in Operation Lion's Roar the Iraqi army and the?U.S.?3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended.
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But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this good news? As the?Media?ResearchCenter?pointed out last week, 'the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN's?Anderson?Cooper 360 were silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks' that signaled political progress.
The war in?Iraq?has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and politically because the president stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don't seem to consider this historic event a big story.
Written by: zak325, 24 Jul 2008 9:47 AM
From: United States
I give no credit to Pres. Bush or anyone in his cabinate for the change of fortune in Iraq. The appointment of Gen. Petraeus and HIS plan for concentrating troops in conflict areas. After 4,000 deaths and more than 20,000 serious injury to U.S. forces and more than 10 times that number in Iraqi casualties can we call this victory? no, it's only the recognition of failure and the recovery. I don't mind declaring victory, and leaving as long as everyone feels like they've won.
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The Iraqi people certainly got a better deal....or you dont think so
Written by: zak325, 24 Jul 2008 10:44 AM
From: United States
I think the Iraqis are better off than they were 1 year ago, partly due to the surge and partly because they have taken matters into their own hands. They have effectivly fought foreign jihadist (Al Qeda) and even the Iraqi Shia warlord Muqtadr Al-Sadr has yeilded to the pressure of his own people to stop fighting. Iraq should be able to stand on it's own feet within 2 years.
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I am talking about the mass murderer ....what are you a Baathist ?....A Sunni ?
Written by: zak325, 24 Jul 2008 11:12 AM
From: United States
We have allowed the Baathist back into the Iraqi government (as long as they don't have too much blood on their hands). This is not new, we allowed "de-Nazified" Germans to run government and industry and Japanese Class A war crimminals to do the same in their country at the end the second world war. It's called pragmatisim, sometimes even the victims say lets just move on, as was the case in Cambodia, where it was the UN who were the driving force to prosecute remaining Kmer Rouge, not the Cambodians.
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zak Pragmatism or Realpolitik whatever the Iraqi people are better off now than under Sadam,,,,were you one of the whiners when we got rid of Allende...or were you even old enough to remember
Written by: zak325, 24 Jul 2008 11:58 AM
From: United States
While Allende was elected, his socilaist policies F-up'd the economy severly, after he was overthrown, Pinochet improved the economic system. So, most Chileans lived well, but had no political freedom, in Cuba, the people have free education and health care and no political freedom. Who was better off?
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you kidding Chile under Pinochet or Cuba under Castro......right.... oh how can I make up my mind ?
Written by: Belial, 24 Jul 2008 2:03 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Barack Obama has caught up to John McCain in Florida. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Obama with a statistically insignificant one-point advantage over his rival, 46% to 45%. When “leaners” are included, the Democrat leads 49% to 47%," the GOP Rasmussen reports.
oooo
This is supposed to be McCain country, but now he's struggling to hang on.
Florida is not a democracy. Florida is a dictatorship of Cuban American lunatics who cheat and rig every election.
So, McCain shouldn't be too distressed over the numbers.
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Belial has joined us after bailing his basement apartment out of water from the storm.......I wonder if he was out looting that would be par always looking for a freebie
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
Written by: Belial, 24 Jul 2008 3:05 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Obama has now been exposed for the empty shiny suit that he is .....this guy has flipped on so many issues the lefties are bailing out left and left ....his Iraq and Afganistan tours were totally without news people and he did not give one press conference ....it is apparent he is way over his empty little head...Just another shiny suit politician," GC belittles Obama.
oooo
If Obama is doing so poorly, why is McCain sobbing inconsolably?
See this piece from the Christian Science Monitor:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080...._ylt=AsM_1PvMow2Zuh899PjP_itsnwcFIt's not the press that is kicking Mc Cain's butt as he apparently believes and whines, rather it's Obama who is kicking Mc Cain's butt.
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
Why take down your comment Belial, ??????? HHHHHHHHuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmm
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NBC News defended their coverage of Barack Obama. They've been accused of giving him more favorable treatment than John McCain. And today NBC News denied it. They said, 'That's ridiculous, we've never even heard of John McCain.'" -
"Now, you know, I don't want to say McCain is running a lackluster campaign, but his Secret Service code name is 'Bob Dole.'
Written by: Belial, 25 Jul 2008 1:01 AM
From: United States, Texas
McCain is a GOP buck-passing whiner.
He also bitches a lot.
When he isn't whining and bitching, he snivels.
"Come on, everybody, get down on our knees and pray to God or perhaps Jesus for another terrorist attack of the USA," McCain orders his campaign staff.
If he prays to Ronald Reagan, he will probably get his much-needed attack.
Neither God nor Jesus will condescend.
Written by: Belial, 25 Jul 2008 1:20 AM
From: United States, Texas
" 'Now, you know, I don't want to say McCain is running a lackluster campaign, but his Secret Service code name is 'Bob Dole.' "
0000
The way he's going, the code name "Barry Goldwater" is closer to home.
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Do not use the blessed Barrys name in vain
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The air is starting to come out of phony shiny suit Obamas balloon.....His lead in polls is less than Kerry or Dukakis and Gore at this same time point in campaign....Its a mirage
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"{The way I see it, China is playing Chavez for the chump, and he fell for it. Beijing worked out a lucrative oil-services contract, just as it has in numerous African and Asian nations. On that deal China moved fast. Just a few weeks after signing, three new Chinese oil-drilling rigs arrived at Venezuela's Maracaibo port. Twenty-four more are on the way.
The Chinese understand Chavez's rabid need to strike back at Washington. They probably nodded and smiled as he talked of it and then offered the tentative refinery agreement. Now, expect Beijing to slow-roll that."}......THANKS TEX >>> they will discard him like a used condom
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0000
Most of the reactionaries in this forum suffer from a blockheadedness that is breathtakingly stunning.
In any case, here's a 61-page paper on the important DR textile industry which is mostly in the zones. Enjoy.
http://www.nathaninc.com/nathan2/....d%20Apparel%20Competitiveness.pdf
Whither DAs.
Either the alliance of black, brown [mostly MAs (Mexican Americans) and PRs], and white liberals or the filthy, slimy, stinking GOP reactionaries and CA [Cuban American] lunatics?
There are no other viable alternatives and stand alone like a babe in the woods is not an option.
Although LAs [Latin Americans], DAs have a separate agenda from PRs and CAs. The DAs are closer agenda-wise to the MAs.
Obama, Jackson, and Rangel are the key guys for the AAs. Richardson talks most for the MAs. And Serrano is the man for the PRs. Gore and Clinton have clout with the white liberals.
"Dated 2004 it is deader than disco....report is from the era when the earth was still cooling and the dinosaurs walked ........ Rangel being one of the dinosaurs," GC defends his ignorant friend
0000
So, this fool, GC, believes global cooling, not warming, was going on in 2004.
Ignorance.
Rangel ... the sitting chair of the US House Committee on Ways and Means, the most powerful committee in the legislative body ... is a "dinosaur."
Stupidity.
GC, where do you sit?
On his pot, making noises and smells, both of which thrill him.
http://rasmussenreports.com/publi..../daily_presidential_tracking_poll
This is the bigoted and slanted GOP's Rasmussen poll.
GC, your opinion is almost as worthless as you are.
Democratic pollsters have Obama 5 points in front.
0000
Can anybody on earth or off interpret or translate what this fool is talking about?
oooo
But texasshoe, how can GC know anything if his knowledge comes from sergeant-of-the-guard, Schultz who himself repeatedly admits that he knows nothing about this and this is everything.
How can GC think independently or dependently if he doesn't know anything.
For you, texasshoe, to believe and say such nonsense means that your head is full of cappie garbage.
But back to DR is there anything I'm missing here Belial, because win-win sounds rather correct on my congressman Rangel's part?
The destruction of al-Qaida in?Iraq?(AQI) is one of the most unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare.?We can thank President Bush's surge strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and Democratic leaders in?Washington?by increasing our forces there instead of surrendering.
Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from there.
Now, in Operation Lion's Roar the Iraqi army and the?U.S.?3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended.
The war in?Iraq?has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and politically because the president stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don't seem to consider this historic event a big story.
"Barack Obama has caught up to John McCain in Florida. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Obama with a statistically insignificant one-point advantage over his rival, 46% to 45%. When “leaners” are included, the Democrat leads 49% to 47%," the GOP Rasmussen reports.
oooo
This is supposed to be McCain country, but now he's struggling to hang on.
Florida is not a democracy. Florida is a dictatorship of Cuban American lunatics who cheat and rig every election.
So, McCain shouldn't be too distressed over the numbers.
Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belial
oooo
If Obama is doing so poorly, why is McCain sobbing inconsolably?
See this piece from the Christian Science Monitor:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080...._ylt=AsM_1PvMow2Zuh899PjP_itsnwcF
It's not the press that is kicking Mc Cain's butt as he apparently believes and whines, rather it's Obama who is kicking Mc Cain's butt.
"Now, you know, I don't want to say McCain is running a lackluster campaign, but his Secret Service code name is 'Bob Dole.'
He also bitches a lot.
When he isn't whining and bitching, he snivels.
"Come on, everybody, get down on our knees and pray to God or perhaps Jesus for another terrorist attack of the USA," McCain orders his campaign staff.
If he prays to Ronald Reagan, he will probably get his much-needed attack.
Neither God nor Jesus will condescend.
0000
The way he's going, the code name "Barry Goldwater" is closer to home.
He might be trying to makeup to the Spainards, but the Chineese got him;
http://www.downstreamtoday.com//N....Falls_for_Chinese_Ploy_12047.aspx
"{The way I see it, China is playing Chavez for the chump, and he fell for it. Beijing worked out a lucrative oil-services contract, just as it has in numerous African and Asian nations. On that deal China moved fast. Just a few weeks after signing, three new Chinese oil-drilling rigs arrived at Venezuela's Maracaibo port. Twenty-four more are on the way.
The Chinese understand Chavez's rabid need to strike back at Washington. They probably nodded and smiled as he talked of it and then offered the tentative refinery agreement. Now, expect Beijing to slow-roll that."}......THANKS TEX >>> they will discard him like a used condom