Election year or not--security should come first

House Armed Services Committee subcommittee on Terrorism and Unconventional Threats ranking member, Mac Thornberry (R-TX) says that efforts at security legislation are being punished by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who, he says, is using the Colombia Free Trade Agreement as "political leverage." (0:38)


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Colombia: "If you're for free trade, you take it wherever you can get it"

At a Brookings Institution discussion on the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says that “if you’re for free trade, you take it wherever you can get it.” He said that the ideal situation would be to strive for a “worldwide agreement, secondly regional, and only lastly bilateral” but that trade in general is “necessary for the rest of the world know that the United States is in the game.” (0:30)
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Senator says there is "no downside" to the Colombia Free Trade Agreement

At a Brookings Institution discussion on the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says there is “no downside” to the agreement, and that it is “pathetic” that the agreement has not been passed already. (0:24)
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"Venezuela is working with Iran to hurt the United States."

In a brief press conference with the Senate Republican Leadership Sen. Kay Baily Hutchinson (R-TX) says that the United States should support democracies in South America and reward then through agreements like the proposed Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which has been stymied in the House of Representatives. (0:53)
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