Robert Brady Quotes
Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.
United States, Congress, House. Representative Brady speaking on the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act. Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, 27 June 2001.
The big priorities will focus on the security and economic side because they really go hand in hand.
This quotation Illustrates a conflation of American national security and economics.
Foreign trade creates jobs and eliminates jobs. The people who lost jobs as the result of increased foreign trade are readily identified while the job beneficiaries may never know the reason. So it is a hard political sell even though most of the economic studies have showed that more jobs of more value are created by trade than lost. However, the losers are generally blue collar workers while the beneficiaries are generally white collar and knowledge workers. So there is a socioeconomic class differentiation in the trade issue.
Robert A. Brady is an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1998 to 2019. He was the ranking Democrat and Chairman of the United States House Committee on House Administration from 2007 to 2019. He has served as Chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Party for more than 30 years and is a registered lobbyist for NBC Universal and Independence Blue Cross.
