[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              CHRYSLER PLANT'S FUTURE IN FENTON, MISSOURI

  (Mr. CARNAHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARNAHAN. Mr. Speaker, Chrysler Corporation has a proud history 
of producing cars, trucks and vans in the Fenton, Missouri, plant. The 
workers there helped Chrysler survive its darkest hours in the 1980s, 
and helped it thrive during the 1990s and 2000s.
  The U.S. Government has stepped in to help our American automakers 
survive and to protect American jobs. I was truly disappointed to read 
in the St. Louis Post Dispatch that the Fenton, Missouri, plant may be 
at risk under Chrysler's viability plan. By almost every measure, the 
Fenton, Missouri, plant has the key ingredients to be part of the 
survival and success of Chrysler.
  The workforce at the plant is among the most productive in the 
industry, and the plant itself has had a half billion dollars invested 
in it for flexible manufacturing to give it the ability to build the 
cars of the future today. The manufacturing technology reduces the 
carbon footprint, and provides long-term savings and energy use. This 
state-of-the-art plant and its record-setting workers are the example 
of what can help the industry and Chrysler survive and thrive in the 
future.

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