[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 25 (Friday, February 15, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H571]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      THANK YOU TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

  (Mr. RYAN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to say thank you, 
thank you to President Obama. A couple of nights ago at the State of 
the Union, he mentioned Youngstown, Ohio, and the National Additive 
Manufacturing Innovation Institute that is a partnership between the 
Departments of Commerce, Energy, Defense, and private partnerships up 
to about $70 million to advance additive manufacturing innovation in 
the military and energy and health care that will transform and 
revolutionize manufacturing.
  I wanted to rise this morning to also say thank you to all of our 
partners in the Tech Belt, which ranges from Cleveland to Akron to 
Youngstown, to Pittsburgh, all the way down into West Virginia. The old 
Rust Belt has made a comeback, and we are on our way, as we did many, 
many years ago, to revolutionize manufacturing again.
  This will lead to great opportunities for our young people to come 
back, institutions like Case Western Reserve, Carnegie Mellon, 
Youngstown State, University of Akron, Lehigh, Penn State, West 
Virginia University, all coming together, working as a team. And we now 
have landed this institute, and we will once again be the hub of 
manufacturing.
  Thank you, President Obama, and thank you to all of the men and women 
who have helped put this thing together.

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