[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21161]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     CHINESE CURRENCY MANIPULATION

  (Mr. CRITZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CRITZ. Mr. Speaker, over the past several weeks, we have heard a 
lot of rhetoric about how this House has passed so many jobs bills that 
are sitting in the Senate waiting for action. But I want to talk about 
one bill that actually passed the Senate, and it is waiting in the 
House for action, and that is going after countries that manipulate 
their currency, of which China is the largest violator.
  The bill has been sitting in committee since February with no 
Republican action. A discharge petition has sat at this desk for the 
last 5 months with no Republican action. It remains just 30 signatures 
shy of forcing action on Chinese currency manipulation, which estimates 
show could create 1.5 million jobs in this country.
  So I want to urge the citizens of this country to call their 
Republican Congressmen to urge this Republican House that as they open 
their presents over this holiday season and they open those boxes and 
find those little tags that say ``made in China,'' call your Republican 
Congressman, call this Republican House, and say thank you, thank you 
for putting party before country. Tell them, put country before party. 
Don't put China's economy before the United States'.

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