[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23167]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



           UNITED STATES IN THIRD YEAR OF IMPORT STEEL CRISIS

  (Mr. MOLLOHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Speaker, what happens when a crisis is not 
resolved, a crisis that is allowed to grow, both in scope and 
intensity? In time, that crisis will become a disaster. Such a time is 
near at hand for our domestic steel industry.
  We are in the third year of an import steel crisis. Our steel 
companies and workers are buckling under the weight of unprecedented, 
record-breaking foreign imports, much of it illegal. Thousands of our 
workers have been laid off. Six of our steel companies in the last 2 
years have gone bankrupt. With this year's imports running higher than 
ever, the continued existence of a viable steel industry in this 
country is at risk.
  The only way to avert such a disaster is to cut imports, to reverse 
the trend which is threatening an industry that is vital to our economy 
and our national defense.
  That is why I join the gentleman from New York (Mr. Quinn) in 
introducing the bipartisan Executive Steel Defense Resolution. That is 
why I have joined the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Visclosky); the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula); the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ney); 
the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Wise), from my home State; the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Klink); the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Mascara); and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Doyle) in the bipartisan effort to achieve relief against disastrous 
steel import levels.
  We call on the President to initiate a 201 proceeding, Mr. Speaker.

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