John Garamendi: “The gentleman from Ohio just touched on something that is really a serious issue, and I want to just drive home, because…”

“The gentleman from Ohio just touched on something that is really a serious issue, and I want to just drive home, because you said something that I want to take back to California. As I said earlier, we have some of the biggest wind farms in the Nation. Texas has done some that are a little bit bigger, but I was out touring there with a couple of the companies that are building those things. I said, ``Well, this is interesting. Where is it made?'' It turns out that the tower, steel tower, was made in Korea. Yet just across the river 20 miles away is a Korean company's steel mill that could have been made in California, but instead they shipped it in from Korea. The big blades and the gears in the wind turbines all have been made overseas. And I told the company, ``Enough. You will have no more support from me for one more wind turbine in this area until you start buying America.'' They said, They don't make it in America. Mr. Driehaus, you and I need to get together and I need to know where those gears are, because I'm going to go back to California and tell them, I know where you can get a gear. That may be one one-hundredth of this machine, but by God you are going to make it in America and you are going to build it in America because, one more thing, our tax dollars are subsidizing that industry. And if our tax dollars are going to be used to subsidize any industry, they are going to be made in America. And we are going to help out Ohio by making that happen.”