[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 190 (Tuesday, December 15, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H14945]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                787 DREAMLINER'S FIRST SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT

  (Mr. DICKS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DICKS. I want to inform my colleagues today that out in the great 
State of Washington, in Rick Larsen's district, today the first 787 
Dreamliner did its first successful flight.
  This is one of the great airplanes built in the United States by the 
Boeing Company. I want you to know it was built without any launch aid. 
Not like the A330 that received $5.7 billion in launch aid, this plane 
was built the old-fashioned way: Boeing put the money in the pot and 
built the plane, and it flew today.
  As we get into the discussion on tankers later this year, I just want 
to remind everybody that the A330 received $5.7 billion in subsidy. I 
think it's wrong. I think we need to go back to the World Trade 
Organization and make sure that they follow through and make sure that 
the Europeans stop subsidizing all these Airbus aircraft.
  Boeing is a great company in the Pacific Northwest. I'm proud of the 
787. There are over 900 orders. And it's a great airplane.

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