[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4072]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      OUTSOURCING NATIONAL DEFENSE

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, the next Air Force plane that you will see in 
the air will be branded with ``Made in France'' on the side of it. Not 
only France but Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom will be making 
170 or more of the new Air Force supertankers built by that European 
subsidized company, Airbus.
  This $40 billion contract will rob thousands of workers of Boeing 
Company of their jobs. Why is our Air Force outsourcing national 
defense to the Europeans, of all people? Aren't they the ones that take 
every opportunity to bash our U.S. military?
  The Air Force is trying to do damage control by saying the Airbus is 
better than the Boeing plane.
  Madam Speaker, that dog just won't hunt. U.S.-built planes have been 
successfully defending our skies and our homeland since before World 
War II. We are not talking about outsourcing some cheap Wal-Mart 
product that's made in China. We are talking about outsourcing 
sensitive military equipment. Some things should always be made in 
America, by Americans, for Americans.
  What's next? Is the Air Force going to outsource those airplane crews 
with the French as well?
  And that's just the way it is.

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