[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 29, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5549]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                             MLB RESOLUTION

  (Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask my colleagues 
to support legislation that I, along with Representative   Jim 
Hagedorn, are introducing to ask the House of Representatives to 
denounce Major League Baseball's actions in closing a plant in 
Caledonia, Minnesota, and moving manufacturing jobs to communist China.
  For more than two decades, Miken Sports has been located in the 
Caledonia community. As an integral small business, Miken employs 
nearly 150 hardworking Americans. This decision to close the plant and 
move jobs to China directly defies Major League Baseball's position as 
America's pastime.
  There is nothing American about outsourcing jobs to China, removing 
income from American workers, and destroying a community's economy. We 
know that very well in Atlanta, Georgia.
  Major League Baseball should be an unquestionable supporter of 
American jobs. The League's decision to close the plant and move those 
jobs to China is incredibly disheartening. America's pastime should be 
supported by American-made products and jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge Major League Baseball to live up to its 
responsibility to the American people by reversing this decision to 
keep these jobs at home and to purchase American-made products, and I 
ask my colleagues for their support.

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