[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 66 (Friday, April 16, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H1878-H1879]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               AMERICAN STEEL FOR AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE

  (Mr. FORTENBERRY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FORTENBERRY. Madam Speaker, a long time ago, I made the decision 
to stand by the people who grow our food, protect our country, and make 
our stuff. Now, for a moment, if we could put aside the ever-expanding 
definition of infrastructure, I think we could agree on a basic 
principle: if we are going to ask American taxpayers to fund new 
American infrastructure, then we need to use American companies, 
American steel, and American labor.
  It is especially important that American-made steel not be outsourced 
for fabrication to nations with lax environmental standards and lax 
labor

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standards. As this pandemic has so forcefully and painfully shown us, 
an overreliance on a foreign supply chain makes us vulnerable.
  Madam Speaker, how about this: a ``Made in America'' label on all 
products used in American public works across the country. On that, 
perhaps, we can agree.

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