[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15468-15469]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           MANUFACTURING DAY

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, this Friday, October 2, is Manufacturing 
Day, a day to celebrate the American manufacturing industry that has 
made our country great and to highlight

[[Page 15469]]

emerging opportunities in the field of advanced manufacturing.
  My home State of Rhode Island is the birthplace of the American 
industrial revolution. It was in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where Samuel 
Slater opened our country's first successful cotton spinning factory 
that marked the beginning of a new era in American innovation.
  From the textile mills in Woonsocket to the shipyards in Newport, 
good-paying manufacturing jobs helped build a thriving middle class in 
Rhode Island and all across our country.
  Today, advanced manufacturing fields like 3-D printing, medical 
device production, and renewable energy offer the promise of new 
opportunities to a new generation of Rhode Island and American workers. 
It is critical that we seize these opportunities to help our country 
lead the world in manufacturing.
  Let's honor the great manufacturing history of America by investing 
in policies that create good-paying American jobs. I urge my colleagues 
to stand up for commonsense policies that will enable the American 
manufacturing industry to lead the world. Let's move forward in a 
bipartisan way with our Make It In America agenda.

                          ____________________