[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11026]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL AWARDED TO GERMAN 
                        COMPANY WITH NAZI ROOTS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, first the Air Force buys Chinese boots. 
Then the Pentagon buys black berets made in China. To boot, visitors at 
Quantico get gifts from the Marines made in China.
  If that is not enough to spoil your Chinese dinner, digest this, 
Congress: U.S. bureaucrats awarded a construction contract for the new 
World War II Memorial to be built on The Mall to a German company with 
Nazi roots. A German company that built war planes for the Nazis, that 
helped kill hundreds of thousands of American troops. Unbelievable. 
What is next, a Nazi memorial on the World War II sites? Beam me up.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the need for Congress to hire a 
proctologist to train Pentagon procurement officials on the buy 
American laws.

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