[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12090]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         PIKETON PLANT TO CLOSE

  (Mr. STRICKLAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STRICKLAND. Mr. Speaker, the hour is late, but I think it is 
important that I share with my colleagues the headline from the 
Columbus Dispatch today, which says ``Piketon Plant to Close: 2,000 
Workers Will Lose Jobs Because of Shutdown.'' And then it says, ``Less 
than 2 years ago, the United States Enrichment Corporation, which was 
privatized 2 years ago, vowed to keep the Piketon Plant and a sister 
facility in Paducah, Kentucky, open until at least 2005.
  It is late, but I hope the Vice President is awake and listening 
tonight. I hope the Secretary of the Treasury is awake and listening 
tonight. Because it was on their watch that this decision has been made 
and my workers and my community have been let down.
  Mr. Speaker, this Congress has an obligation to protect this 
industry, which provides 23 percent of the electricity generated within 
this country.

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