John Garamendi

Mr. Tonko, I don't think I could say it better. And so what I think I will say is, Mr. Speaker, we yield back our time. ____________________

Mr. Hoyer, thank you so very much. As I've heard you say over and over again, America will make it when we Make It in America.

Well, the Make It in America agenda has many, many parts to it. It has a research piece. It has an innovation piece. It has some tax issues to it. All of these have been packaged and pulled together by our leader, Steny Hoyer, who I see…

Mr. Tonko, you have come to a very important point here, and that is: Before you came to Congress, you headed up a consortium in New York that did precisely that, didn't you?

If you could pop that out it would be very helpful and we can get that project underway this summer.

I think we ought to take a very close look at that.

I ask for your attention to that and, if possible, quick action on it so that that project can get underway.

We have the responsibility and we have foregone that responsibility by eliminating our ability to direct projects.

I don't think that is responsible for us to do such a thing but we did it.

What else do we need to do, meaning Congress?

I think we have covered it here with your questions about what is the most important thing to be done.

I am perplexed by the administration's 480 policy and their new welfare program.

We really have all the elements of a strategic plan, it is just they are not pulled together.

I suspect that this is exactly what it is about.

The direction that you want to go is good, but the programs and policies are going the opposite direction.

It just seems to me, somewhere the administration has found 25 million extra dollars to backfill and to handle a problem that it is creating by changing the P.L. 480 program.

Wouldn't we be better off if we put $25 million directly into the P.L. 480 program and just have more capacity and more food aid around the world?

I am going to do everything I can to reverse the administration's position.

I think the administration is dead-wrong with regard to Food for Peace for a variety of reasons.

I strongly disagree, and I will do everything I can to see that the $25 million goes into providing food aid directly rather than in trying to find some way to educate, reeducate mariners.

I thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for your leadership on this critical issue.

We ought not be ignorant of all of our options, and we ought to be studying do we really need a triad for deterrence against whom.

I want to thank the gentleman from Ohio, who knows what it is to rebuild the manufacturing base, and I thank you for the work that you've been doing. We have just a few seconds, Ms. Norton, if you could wrap and then I'll wrap, and we'll…

If you use American taxpayer money to buy American- made equipment, supplies and products.

If the gentlelady would yield for a moment, you're exactly right about the infrastructure. We need to build it. I notice that our colleague from Ohio has joined us. The last time we were on the floor, we talked about these issues. So if…