[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 68 (Thursday, May 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 26, 1994]
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     SIGN DISCHARGE PETITION ON H.R. 3087 TO BRING JOBS TO AMERICA

  (Mr. HANSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Speaker, after the Second World War, we had a great 
industry evolve in the United States. We were building light aircraft 
all over, and they are all over the world today. Cessna, Beech, Piper, 
you name it, they are everywhere. Everywhere you go you can see these 
great airplanes.
  Little by little, because of a very active trial attorneys bar, they 
are no longer there. Where we were doing billions of dollars of 
business and providing millions of jobs, where we were building 18,000 
aircraft a year, we are not building less than 400.
  This body has the opportunity to do a historic thing today. We have 
gone through the other body, we have gone through the Committee on 
Public Works, but we are being held up in one committee.
  This morning I filed Discharge Petition No. 21, and already we have 
about 50 signers on that. We have 302 cosponsors. That means the 
majority of us are on this bill. This is a great opportunity before we 
go home for our break to sign this discharge petition, the 302 of you 
on this. Once we reach 218, you cannot sign it anymore, the books are 
closed. I urge you to do it.

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