Today, we have the important opportunity to protect the American brick manufacturing industry and the ceramic kiln industry and its 7,000 employees from a costly regulation that has yet to survive a judicial scrutiny. At this time, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Bishop), one of the original sponsors of this bill.
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