[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7596]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      WONDERFUL NEWS FROM DETROIT

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, during the past several years, 
the domestic auto industry has undergone an incredibly painful economic 
transition. Quite frankly, this industry was on its knees, and many 
people didn't think that either General Motors or Chrysler would 
survive. These naysayers said it would be best if they were just left 
to, in the case of General Motors, go into a chaotic bankruptcy, and in 
the case of Chrysler, certainly a complete liquidation.
  For my great State of Michigan, my beautiful State of Michigan, which 
has suffered the worst economic depression certainly in my lifetime, if 
that would have happened, as bad as it has been for us, what would have 
happened if those companies would have gone bankrupt and liquidated 
would have been unimaginable--the loss of tens of thousands of more 
jobs either directly or indirectly through the supply chain and all the 
businesses that rely on the spinoff from the domestic auto industry.
  Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, Chrysler Company at the Sterling Heights 
Assembly Plant--also known as SHAP, which is in my district--will be 
announcing that they will be paying back the Federal Government loans 
in their entirety 4 years ahead of schedule. This is the same plant, 
Mr. Speaker, that just recently put on a third shift, actually saving 
in that plant well over 2,000 jobs.
  I am very proud of everyone who has supported the domestic auto 
industry, and certainly it is proof that the best automobiles in the 
entire world are, indeed, imported from Detroit.

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