[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12792-12793]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        STEEL REVITALIZATION ACT

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, almost every day we hear about 
another major U.S. corporation sell out its stockholders, lay off 
workers, destroy pension funds for those workers. Almost every day we 
see my Republican friends do the bidding of another corporate interest 
and fail the American public.

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  I call on this body to pass H.R. 808, the Steel Revitalization Act. 
In my district, RTI Technologies, a steel producer, has seen, its 
workers have seen their pension and their health benefits in jeopardy.
  This body which every day acts on behalf of corporate interests on 
behalf of Republican leadership has failed workers in this country, has 
failed pensioners in this country, has failed to correct health care 
abuses by corporate America in this country. It is time that this body 
pass H.R. 808, the Steel Revitalization Act.

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