[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17418-17419]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       AUTO WORKERS ARE AMERICANS WHOSE JOBS ARE WORTH PROTECTING

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I was appalled last week by the 
words of the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asking Senators to vote 
for a job-killing fuel economy standards bill for cars by asking them 
to, ``speak for the American people, not

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for the three car companies that are closing plants and laying off 
people.''
  Well, the last time I looked, the over 1 million people who work 
directly for the big three are actually American citizens, and millions 
of others whose jobs are supported by the big three are Americans as 
well, the last time I looked. Everyone knows that the biggest producer 
of CO2 emissions is electricity production, and yet I didn't 
hear the Senate majority leader volunteer to make the blazing neon 
blazing casinos in his home State of Nevada more energy efficient. How 
about we regulate their energy consumption?
  Let's hope that the Democratic leaders in this House understand that 
millions of American workers and their jobs are worth protecting and 
don't follow the Senate's lead in their attempt to destroy them.

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