[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12954]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                     BUY AMERICA PROVISIONS WORKING

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Madam Speaker, a few weeks ago I visited a 
company in my district, Integro, and through the enforcement of the Buy 
America clause, their business in making lighting for airstrips has 
almost doubled.
  In visiting them, I found out that they then have increased their 
purchasing from other domestic firms. So earlier this week I visited a 
company in Plainville, Connecticut, Olson Brothers, who has seen their 
business increase 20 to 30 percent because of the purchasing done by 
Integro.
  They buy their raw product from a company in Massachusetts, and 
hopefully later on during the August break I will get to visit them as 
well.
  The point is when you enforce Buy America regulations, when we make 
sure that the things we buy for the Federal Government are bought from 
domestic firms, you don't just create business with one company, you 
create business with three companies, with five companies, with 10 
companies. That is why Buy America works. That is why we should 
reinvest and strengthen that policy here in Congress.

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