Sam Brownback: “I would also like to draw attention to an issue that I think is about the most important to our Nation. We recently won…”

“I would also like to draw attention to an issue that I think is about the most important to our Nation. We recently won a major trade case against the European Union and their subsidization of Airbus. This is an effort by the European Union, over a period of 30 years, to buy their way into the large commercial aviation marketplace. They did so. They did so successfully. They drove out two major U.S. competitors, McDonnell-Douglas, Lockheed-Martin, drove them out completely. They do not even make those big jet airliners anymore, and they had Boeing on the ropes. Airbus took more than half the market share globally in the large airliner business. The U.S. Trade Representative's office, over a couple different administrations, pursued Airbus's subsidization. We just won this case, a multibillion dollar trade subsidy case that we won against the Europeans and their subsidization of Airbus, taking market share in the large commercial airliner business in an illegal fashion, illegally subsidized. Now we will go into the damage and remedy phase. But we won the case, and it is a massive case.”