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Stephen F. Lynch

(1955) Politician

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Stephen F. Lynch is a politician.

Quick Facts About Stephen F. Lynch

Born: March 31, 1955
Profession: Politician

About Stephen F. Lynch

[Wikidata] U.S. Representative from Massachusetts... | [Wikipedia] Stephen Francis Lynch is an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. A Democrat, he represents Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, which includes the southern fourth of Boston and many of its s

Quotes by Stephen F. Lynch

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and…

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Clinicals

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I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

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Drug

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Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

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Fallen

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Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed…

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American business

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Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

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Attorney

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If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes…

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Average

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Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think…

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Agreements

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Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

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Average

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You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department…

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Across

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Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

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Doe

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Free trade should not mean free labor.

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Free trade

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The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk…

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Congress

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Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central…

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Adverse

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Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico,…

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Amnesty

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The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are…

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Consumed

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As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's…

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Boon

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Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled…

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Benefits

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