[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 7273-7274]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               WELCOMING LONGABERGER POTTERY BACK TO U.S.

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, as a member of the House Democrats' Make It 
In America Working Group, I was pleased to attend a ceremony yesterday 
welcoming Longaberger Pottery to Niagara Ceramics Corporation in 
Buffalo.
  In 2005, Longaberger moved its production line to China. Its return 
will create 22 American jobs. Under CEO Tammy Longaberger, this fifth-
generation family business manufactures in the true American artisan 
tradition.
  This story is further evidence that we are approaching what the 
writer Charles Fishman calls ``the insourcing boom.'' American 
companies are reconsidering their decisions to move operations 
overseas. The issues of rising transportation costs, quality control, 
and the productivity of American workers is driving this trend. 
Congress should be working to ensure the new trend becomes a 
sustainable, large-scale movement.
  And austerity is exactly the wrong response. We should be investing 
in our infrastructure, in education, and in science. We should adopt 
the House Democrats' Make It In America agenda, including legislation 
that replaces tax breaks for moving jobs overseas

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with incentives for bringing them home.

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