Political Quotes

“Absolutely. Foreign governments should not be allowed to underwrite the risk of corporations involved in developing new airframes, especially when it is at the expense of the American worker. I want to assure my friend that the Armed Services Committee will continue its oversight on this issue, that we are going to revisit it next year. Let me just leave the formal colloquy to say to my friend that my philosophy is that the American worker pays the taxes that fund these enormously expensive programs that manifest in this bill for $441 billion, that projects American power around the world in defense of the free world and provides an umbrella of freedom for hundreds of countries. It is only equitable and fair that the American taxpayer who pays for the defense of the free world should be able to involve themselves in making the very expensive equipment that we utilize. I can assure my friend that I will continue to work with him to make sure that when those great Americans in uniform come home from places like Iraq and Afghanistan they have some jobs in the American aircraft industry making the aircraft that support the projection of American Armed Forces. I thank the gentleman for letting me edit my colloquy a little bit.”