[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 31 (Thursday, March 11, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H1014]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IN DEFENSE OF ANTHONY RAIMONDO

  (Mr. TERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TERRY. Mr. Speaker, I am here today to defend a good American and 
a good Nebraskan, Tony Raimondo, who lives the American Dream of 
building a manufacturing plant in Nebraska and having several others 
throughout the country, employing now 1,200 people that make farm 
equipment, fencing, tanks, metal buildings. The Bush administration has 
tapped his expertise to become the new American manufacturing czar; but 
of course, then this has to be roiled down into Presidential politics.
  The Kerry campaign, in a rather deceitful way, attacking a great 
American, Tony Raimondo, because out of 1,200 American jobs that he has 
created, they have 180 jobs in China to make farm equipment to sell in 
China.
  This is not an issue of outsourcing jobs. This is an issue of being 
efficient in a global economy. This is a great American, and I stand to 
defend him against these unwarranted, deceitful, political, 
presidential-year politics and attacks.

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