Anyone who says we should make everything in the United States, I invite them to come up with a business plan to make a microwave oven that will retail for $42, manufactured in the U.S. with highly-paid labor.
On the recordSeptember 12, 2023
Source
congress.govEditor's note · Context
Foster argues for the economic benefits of global trade and realistic manufacturing costs.
Share
More from Bill Foster
Feb 26, 2025
I rise as a Ph.D. physicist in Congress, who spent most of his career in the national laboratories of the Department of Energy, to share the story of a research engineer at a national lab who was recently fired without cause by President…
Sep 18, 2024
I have been amused for a long time at how can it be that there is legislation supported by 70 or 80 percent of the public, a clear majority of Members of Congress, and yet we are not allowed to even vote on it.
Sep 18, 2024
This made the discharge petition much more effective at its intended purpose, which is sort of to operate as a safety valve against, you know, the Speaker's rather dictatorial power.





