[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 118 (Friday, August 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 19, 1994]
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    GENERAL AVIATION REVITALIZATIONACT IS THE FIRST STEP

  (Mr. GLICKMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GLICKMAN. Mr. Speaker, in this time period of a lot of 
partisanship and bickering, I wanted to give my colleagues some good 
news: On Wednesday the President signed the General Aviation 
Revitalization Act, an act that will create up to 25,000 jobs, American 
jobs, good-paying jobs, in this country, by providing a reasonable 
period of time after which you cannot sue a manufacturer of a small 
airplane for a product defect.
  This is the first major piece of product liability legislation to 
have passed the Congress and be signed into law. More important, this 
will revitalize the small end of the aviation market, the single-engine 
market and the light twins, planes that we have built virtually none on 
in the past 10 years.
  As I said, this was a deal put together in a bipartisan fashion where 
we got management and labor together, we pushed it for years and years, 
we got it signed this year.
  This bill will produce jobs without costing the Federal Government 
one dime, without starting a trade war. It is great news for America, 
great news for my State of Kansas, and great news for aviation.

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