[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7283]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            GENERAL ELECTRIC

  (Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, there's plenty of bad 
economic news around, and we've shared in some of that in the upstate 
of South Carolina. But there are also some real bright spots. One of 
them is on Garlington Road in Greenville, South Carolina, where General 
Electric is currently looking for 200 more engineers. That would add to 
the 3,000 employees they have at that plant. Half are engineers, 
roughly the other half are manufacturing staff.
  One of the most exciting things they're doing there is wind turbines. 
In fact, General Electric is now the number two installer of wind 
turbine units in the whole world, and they're made, in significant 
part, in Greenville, South Carolina.
  If the renewable production tax credit is extended, and that's an 
important ``if'' for us here in the House, we need to do that; if we do 
extend that credit, General Electric expects that the United States 
will surpass Germany as the number one producer of wind energy in the 
world.
  Mr. Speaker, it's an exciting thing when we see new technology create 
jobs, especially when that new technology moves us away from dependence 
on oil and helps us break this addiction.

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