[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25088]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      SAVE AMERICAN STEEL INDUSTRY

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, today steelworkers from across the United 
States have come to Washington to ask our House to recognize their 
plight and the plight of U.S. Steel. Today the United States steel 
industry is faltering and in danger of collapse. Tens of thousands of 
men and women who have helped to secure the defense of this country 
through their work in creating and making this product called steel are 
in danger of losing their jobs and having their whole way of life be 
destroyed.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for this country to ask itself whether or not 
it is in our national interest and in the interest of our national 
defense to maintain our steel industry; or shall we become dependent on 
foreign steel, the same way we are dependent on foreign oil.
  This House will have an opportunity before we complete our business 
to address the issues, to give the steelworkers some relief, to make it 
possible for steel loan guarantees to be more widely applicable, to 
give an opportunity for net operating loss to put cash into steel 
companies so they can keep going. This Congress has an obligation to 
carry forth for the future of this country our ability to make steel.

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