[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15412]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   PENTAGON WAVED OLD GLORY WRONG WAY

  (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, news reports say the Pentagon is stuck 
with 600,000 black berets made in China, and the Pentagon is storing 
these Communist hats in a warehouse in Pennsylvania.
  If that is not enough to bust your balloons, the Pentagon is trying 
to sell these Communist hats to foreign countries; and guess what the 
Pentagon is hearing from these foreign countries. Why would we buy 
them? Why would we want our troops to wear hats made in China?
  Beam me up. The Pentagon just did not wave the Buy American Act, the 
Pentagon waved Old Glory the wrong way.
  Mr. Speaker, I suggest that these Chinese berets be made into 
suppositories and be used on Pentagon brass.

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