John Rice Carter: “Recapturing my time, I thank my friend and say that I hope that all of those Members of this House and others that might…”

“Recapturing my time, I thank my friend and say that I hope that all of those Members of this House and others that might be listening heard you say America could lose this industry. You didn't say that the world would lose this industry because, quite honestly, once again, a great industry that produces good-paying jobs will, all of a sudden--not because of taxes or not because of high labor costs, which are a lot of the arguments we get--a new factor, the regulatory industry, drove this prosperous industry out of our country because of possibly voodoo science that they didn't investigate enough. They've got a concept, and they stick to that concept on their science arguments and they don't go outside the scope of their view of the world. They're going to shut down an industry. But are we going to stop making plastics? No. The world's not. Just the United States is going to stop. And then people say, Why are all of these jobs offshore? It's not just the cost of labor that drives people offshore. Our regulatory agencies have as much to do with that as anything there is out there. The President made a joke recently where he said he found out that all shovel-ready jobs are not shovel-ready jobs. Well, let me tell you.…”