[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15686-15687]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               OUR COUNTRY'S UNBELIEVABLE POLICY ON STEEL

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, after World War II we gave tours of our 
steel mills to Japan and Germany. We let them take pictures. We gave 
them blueprints. We even gave them foreign aid so they could build 
their own steel mills.
  Today Japan and Germany have steel mills. America has photographs. If 
that is not enough to tarnish our stainless, Japan and Europe at this 
very moment keep dumping illegal steel into America while in 
Pittsburgh, the once steel capital of the world, they just demolished 
another steel mill.
  Beam me up. This policy on steel is not only unbelievable, it is 
stupid. I believe, Mr. Speaker, we could do with less think tanks and 
styrofoam and a few more factories and steel.

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