Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Mr. Speaker, as Members have heard, the electric vehicle tax credit is helping the U.S. compete with China, lowering our costs for our consumers, making sure that we can continue to make those vehicles here in America with American workers. As my colleague from Michigan (Mrs. Dingell) pointed out, history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes. It was in the early 1970s that the U.S. auto industry and the U.S. economy failed to see the future, failed to embrace it. We lost market share, from which we have not ever quite recovered. We can't let that happen again. The legislation before us would reverse the progress that we have made in competing with what has been Chinese dominance of electric vehicles. We have created American jobs. We have created American investments throughout our supply chain. This legislation would make it harder for us to compete with China. Mr. Speaker, the Democrats and Republicans have stood together in the past on a bipartisan basis to stand up to China, to protect U.S. manufacturing from unfair trade practices. Of course, our historic work on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act ensures the products made in Xinjiang with forced labor don't enter our markets and undermine American workers. Just listening to the speakers, particularly the last speaker, we know what is going on here because it was now said out loud.…”