mr. speaker , i appreciate the gentleman for yielding me time .  mr. speaker , this is a good debate .  it is a good , healthy debate that we are having here on the floor of congress .  the earlier speaker , the gentleman from ohio , cited some papal encyclicals , but , as a practicing catholic , i will be the first to defend his right to do that here on the floor , but i also think there are some bigger issues we need to talk about .  first of all , how do we keep jobs in america ?  we all care about that .  this is what we are talking about .  i would argue we have got to do basically two things : stop pushing jobs overseas and stop countries from unfairly taking jobs overseas .  how do we stop pushing jobs overseas ?  well , for starters , we can address health care costs .  we can address the fact that we tax our businesses and our jobs more than any other country in the world , save japan .  we can address tort costs , regulatory costs , have a comprehensive energy policy to make energy more affordable .  how do we stop countries from unfairly taking jobs overseas ?  we have to remember , mr. speaker , that 97 percent of the world 's consumers are not in this country .  they are outside of this country .  one in five manufacturing jobs are tied to exports .  exports , on average , pay more than other jobs .  we can not put our head in the sand .  pulling out of the wto is the economic equivalent of throwing the baby out with the bath water .  what has happened since we have gone into the wto ?  let us look at the challenges that confront us .  we talk about china , a very appropriate topic to discuss here .  since china joined the wto , do my colleagues know how many laws we had to change and pass in america to go there ?  zero .  do my colleagues know how many laws china had to change , laws and regulations , to enter the wto ?  1 , 100 .  to get into the wto , to join countries of fair trade , china had to change 1 , 100 laws .  are they following all these rules and agreements ?  of course not .  but because they are in the wto , because we have the wto , we finally have a forum , a mechanism , a system to bring these countries into compliance to play by the rules .  if we did not have this system , all these countries could play by whatever rules they set .  we are the economic superpower of the world .  we play by the rules .  we are the most transparent , most honest , most basic system in the world .  we need other countries to play by the same rules , too , so we can all join together in growing economic growth here in america and across the world .  pulling out of the wto would be the economic equivalent of biting off our nose to spite our face .  since we have had china in the wto , i have been critical of the administration 's stance in its first 3 years .  i have joined with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle criticizing the administration on their china policy .  however , over the past year and a half , the administration , through the wto rules , has brought 12 different actions against china .  we are making success .  we are bringing accountability .  pull out now , and the situation gets much worse .  stay in it .  fight for fair trade .  we can clean up these rules , and that is the only way to bring other nations into the fair trade arena .  