[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 189 (Monday, December 14, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H14845]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       UNFAIR AIRBUS COMPETITION

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Madam Speaker, we cannot allow a great injustice to the 
American worker, to the American warfighter and to the American 
taxpayer, which would happen if a contract for the Air Force tanker 
goes to the Airbus contractor without taking into consideration these 
massive illegal subsidies that the Airbus competitor has received.
  We have decided and we have determined, the U.S. Government, that 
Airbus has received multibillion dollars of illegal subsidies, which 
have allowed them to develop a tanker with which they now have to bid 
against an American contractor, the Boeing Company.
  We are calling upon the administration to do the right thing, which 
is in the contracting process, and figure into the respective bids the 
amount of the illegal subsidies that the Airbus company has received. 
And they can do that by having the countervailing duty section of the 
U.S. Department of Trade Representative determine the amount of that 
illegal subsidy. When that illegal subsidy is added to the Airbus bid, 
the right thing will happen, and we will have American jobs.

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