[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 128 (Wednesday, September 17, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H8290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    MANUFACTURING MUST BE PROTECTED

  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, manufacturing is an endangered species 
that we must work now to protect. Some say manufacturing is no longer 
vital to our economy, the service industries will compensate.
  I agree with Henry Kissinger when he says, ``I think that a country 
has to have a massive industrial base in order to play a significant 
role in the world. And to that extent, outsourcing of jobs concerns 
me.'' What made the American economy strong was industrial innovation. 
America led the world in new production methods and increased 
efficiency. How can we be innovators if we have no industry left?
  With our strong industry, we built the most impressive fighting force 
the world has ever seen, a military that keeps us safe and the world 
free, but when our satellites are made in China, bomb parts made in 
Switzerland, night vision crystals in France and the Pentagon now 
wanting to buy 30,000 flight jackets with Pakistani goat hair, as 
opposed to U.S. goat hair, are we defending our economy or supporting 
the economies of other countries?
  In some sectors of defense, we have been forced to recognize foreign 
technology is now vastly superior to our own. We must, we must stand by 
U.S. manufacturing to maintain a strong defense base.

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