[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24685]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       OUR DOMESTIC AUTO INDUSTRY

  (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, there has been a great deal of 
talk over the years that the Big 3 domestic auto companies have been 
too generous in providing pay and benefits to their workers which has 
made them less competitive.
  I think it is wrong that these companies that helped, literally 
helped, create the American middle class have been attacked in such a 
way, but detractors of our domestic auto industry fail to understand 
that blatant cheating by foreign competitors and foreign governments on 
such matters as currency manipulation and piracy of intellectual 
property distort the marketplace and give foreign companies a 
competitive advantage. Detractors now want to expand the attack on our 
domestic auto industry by imposing draconian fuel economy standards 
that will benefit foreign companies and cost American jobs.
  Enough is enough. The American auto companies and the UAW are poised 
to revolutionize the way health care and other benefits are delivered 
to autoworkers, retirees, and their family members; and, at the same 
time, the companies and their incredible scientists are working on new 
technologies for the vehicles of the future that will significantly 
reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Now is not the time for increased 
government regulation that will simply kill American jobs.

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