Bill Pascrell: “I want to make very clear to everybody, and particularly to those who stood on this floor and talked about 'Buy…”

“I want to make very clear to everybody, and particularly to those who stood on this floor and talked about 'Buy America,' well, we hope there are items that are manufactured in this country that we can buy. We are losing our wherewithal. People earned their identity when they came to this country and worked with their hands to produce products. This is a critical vote tomorrow, one that between 10 and 20 of us will decide, in the final analysis. Every poll indicates the American people do not want to transfer the powers in the Constitution from the House of Representatives, from the Senate, to the executive branch. I can cite four or five different ways in which the power of the Congress has been eroded over the past 20 years. This is not the way to do it. So if Members want to buy American, they have to have something to buy. There needs to be something to produce, to be produced.”