[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5447-5448]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  EMPLOYEES OF THE DELPHI CORPORATION

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, last week the Delphi 
Corporation, a key auto parts supplier which employs 33,000 workers in 
the United States and has been in bankruptcy for several months, filed 
motions with the bankruptcy court to cancel its labor contracts and 
impose massive wage and benefit and job cuts on its workers and cut 21 
of its 29 U.S. plants.
  And yet the House of Representatives has failed to hold a single 
hearing on this crisis. Unable to engage this crisis in an official 
hearing, I was joined by over a dozen Democratic colleagues in

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holding an e-hearing this past December to ask the workers and retirees 
at Delphi and General Motors to testify on the Internet about how this 
crisis impacts them and their families. We swung open the virtual doors 
of Congress to make sure that their voices could be heard. Over 700 
witness statements poured in. The workers' testimony was deeply 
personal and heartfelt. And I want to share it with the House.
  From Rena Miller, a Delphi worker from Tanner, Alabama. From William 
J. Conrad from Dagsboro, Delaware. Danny Carter, a 49-year-old Delphi 
employee who has been working in the Anaheim, California plant since he 
was 21 years old. And from Roger Smith, a retired Delphi worker now 
living in Hernando, Florida. Norbert Fuhs, a retired GM employee from 
Mitchell, Indiana. And Roger Talaga, a Delphi employee from Bay City, 
Michigan, who explained how the crisis would affect him and his family 
and the country.

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