Political Quotes

“The interesting thing here is this is just not an office furniture industry issue. If you go through the numbers, they are selling $159 million worth of clothing and textiles. That is why if you go to the gentleman from Pennsylvania's (Mr. Toomey) district, our colleague, I visited up there. There are lots of cut and sew operations that are operating at 25, 30 percent capacities. These are great plants. The workers have been sent home. Federal Prison Industries has grown. It is what happened with Hathaway Shirts in Maine. The contracts went to Federal Prison Industries, and the last shirt manufacturer in the United States closed down. But they are still making shirts over at Federal Prison Industries. They are doing the electronics. They are doing fleet management. It is a fast growing area. I think somehow they got the Midwest on their target zone. I think they forgot that Michigan is part of the union. Stay away from office furniture. Stay away from automotive parts, but they have made that a key part of their business. They are now also moving into the services industry so there is a lot of folks in here. It also talks about the coalition that we have been able to put together. The day I dropped the bill we had 104 co-sponsors. It was awesome. A bipartisan bill.”