[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 98 (Tuesday, July 13, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H5372-H5373]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               OUR COUNTRY'S UNBELIEVABLE POLICY ON STEEL

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, after World War II we gave tours of our 
steel mills to Japan and Germany. We let them take pictures. We gave 
them blueprints. We even gave them foreign aid so they could build 
their own steel mills.
  Today Japan and Germany have steel mills. America has photographs. If 
that

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is not enough to tarnish our stainless, Japan and Europe at this very 
moment keep dumping illegal steel into America while in Pittsburgh, the 
once steel capital of the world, they just demolished another steel 
mill.
  Beam me up. This policy on steel is not only unbelievable, it is 
stupid. I believe, Mr. Speaker, we could do with less think tanks and 
styrofoam and a few more factories and steel.

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