[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 57 (Wednesday, April 21, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2701]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             AN INJUSTICE TO AMERICAN WORKERS AND TAXPAYERS

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor to speak against a 
significant injustice to both American workers and the American 
taxpayer, and that is the decision by the Air Force to extend the 
deadline for offering bids for the Air Force's new imperative tanker, 
which has allowed an illegally subsidized competitor, the EADS Company, 
which has now taken advantage of that, to the disadvantage of American 
workers and the disadvantage of American taxpayers. It is inconceivable 
to me that we have extended this deadline to allow a competitor to 
offer a bid that will be illegally subsidized by European governments.
  If this travesty is allowed to happen, we could lose thousands of 
jobs. The taxpayers would have been suffering seeing these illegal 
subsidies, and a great injustice will have been perpetrated.
  This cannot stand. We should continue to fight this grave injustice.

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