[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 105 (Thursday, July 14, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H5032]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                   SUPPORT THE FREE SUGAR ACT OF 2011

  (Mr. DOLD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOLD. Madam Speaker, our government should not be in the business 
of picking winners and losers. Yet, when it comes to our Nation's sugar 
policy, Washington has decided to implement price controls, which cost 
our country jobs. According to a Commerce Department study, for every 
job Washington protects by its antiquated sugar policy, three American 
manufacturing jobs are lost.
  At a time of record unemployment, the last thing that we should do is 
maintain an outdated policy that hurts job creation here at home. In my 
district, the 10th District of Illinois, we have confectioners, family 
bakeries, family restaurants, and food makers who are forced to pay 
higher prices for sugar because of government price controls. If 
Washington removed these price controls, it would lower the cost of 
sugar and allow small businesses and confectioners to lower the price 
of goods and to hire more workers.
  Today, I am asking that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle join 
me in supporting the Free Sugar Act of 2011. This bipartisan bill will 
end Federal price controls on sugar and help to create jobs here at 
home.

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