[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 30 (Thursday, February 13, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              APPLAUDING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DECISIVE ACTION

  (Mr. STUTZMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I applaud President Trump's decisive 
economic actions that have leveled the playing field between Hoosier 
businesses and the Chinese Communist Party.
  The CCP has taken advantage of hardworking Hoosiers by engaging in 
currency manipulation, undermining our manufacturing sector, and buying 
American farmland in an attempt to control our agricultural future.
  For too long the CCP has used the exchange rate of their currency as 
a dagger to be hidden under the cloak of what they describe as fair 
trade practices. They bought great American companies like Smithfield 
and masqueraded as a friendly neighborhood face, while silently gutting 
the already hemorrhaging mom-and-pop pork operations that are important 
to America's future and food supply.
  To top it all off, they tried to deal a lethal blow to the third 
largest industry in my State by attempting to purchase Indiana steel 
mills. Enough is enough.
  Trump has sent a clear message that America is finished with allowing 
the CCP to evade U.S. tariffs. Hoosiers don't want the CCP to control 
our farmland or our markets. It is time to change the unacceptable 
status quo that has taken hold and put America, not China, first.

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