[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19550]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. REHBERG. Last week, I joined my colleagues on this floor asking 
an important question: Where are the jobs? Well, I have found more than 
1,300 of them shipped to South Africa and Russia.
  General Motors, the company that took millions of tax dollars to save 
American jobs, recently canceled its contract for domestic palladium 
with the Stillwater Mine in Montana. Why? Because our environmental 
laws and regulations are higher, our wages are higher, and our safety 
laws make domestic palladium a little more expensive in the United 
States.
  So GM, that is ``government motors'' these days, chose to buy its 
palladium from mines in South Africa and Russia, mines that pollute the 
environment and treat workers unfairly. Just this month, an accident in 
South Africa killed 61 miners.
  The government owns GM and could prevent this, but the President's 
car czar sees no problem sending U.S. jobs to Russia. Maybe that is why 
he is called a czar.

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