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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor Monday regarding the need to pass free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama:

Earlier today, the President spoke to the Chamber of Commerce in what some have described as an effort to make nice with the business community. I’ll leave others to analyze what the speech means politically. The first concern of the American people is what it will mean for the economy. As I’ve said before, what the President says matters a lot less than what he does.

So we’ll just have to wait and see whether the administration’s actions support its rhetoric.  And it’s in that spirit that I’d like to suggest one thing the President could do immediately, with Republican support, to show he’s serious about jobs and the economy. He could work with us to pass free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama that have been languishing for years now.

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