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John Rice Carter: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. I just want to correct--maybe you said it wrong; maybe I said it wrong. If I did, I…”

On the recordOctober 5, 2011
I thank the gentleman for yielding. I just want to correct--maybe you said it wrong; maybe I said it wrong. If I did, I apologize. I'm not saying Chinese industry will move to the United States. I'm saying that if they close down plants in the United States, which the industry has given us a percentage of at least 20 percent of the plants will close--and we know the construction of a new plant in Alabama will stop until the stay--then I'm saying that then we would have to supplement that by overseas shipments from the largest producer of cement in the world, China.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia
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Oct 5, 2011

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