[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12807]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            GAO DECISION IN AIR FORCE TANKER CONTRACT AWARD

  (Mr. DICKS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to announce to my colleagues an 
important decision was reached today. Thank God for the GAO. An 
injustice was corrected.
  The GAO came out today and held on seven different grounds that the 
Boeing Company's protest should be sustained. This now gives us a 
chance to win this competition and to keep these jobs in the United 
States.
  I'm from the great State of Washington where the Boeing Company 
resides and has many workers. I think this was one of the most 
important decisions by the GAO. I congratulate them for the 
comprehensiveness, for the professionalism, and I hope that the Air 
Force will read this decision and also look at the other factors, 
industrial base, the use of subsidies against the United States by the 
WTO. All of these issues that were not considered should be considered 
in this decision.
  These are the crown jewels of American technology, these tankers, and 
they should be built in the United States by an American company.

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