[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 177 (Thursday, December 8, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H7552]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     UNITED STEELWORKERS IN INDIANA

  (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, we have been hearing a lot in the last 
few days and weeks about what is happening in Indiana with the Carrier 
plant. Last night, the President-elect of the United States took a 
swipe at the local union official of United Steelworkers in Indiana, a 
man who in the last several months has probably had the worst months of 
his life to where he has to tell members of his union that they are 
going to lose their job right before the holidays--families.
  Many of us in this body have known union leaders who have had to deal 
with this exact situation. For the President-elect to take his 
position--the bully pulpit that the people of our country have given 
him--to try to smack down a steelworker in Indiana who is dealing with 
such a tough situation is shameful. And on the heels of that, appoint 
someone to the Secretary of Labor's position who is antilabor and wants 
to get rid of food workers, when he makes millions of dollars a year 
and the food worker makes $18,000 in a good year.
  This is not what my people signed up for, the people who may have 
even voted for Donald Trump.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will remind Members to refrain 
from engaging in personalities toward the President-elect.

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