Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I respect the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jack) for looking out for his district, but this plant that he is talking about in his district is the Japanese company. This is the one non-American manufacturing company. All of the other companies that manufacture these products are American, and they are the ones that support these energy efficiencies because they have made the investments and created more jobs when they retrofitted their companies for this product. Madam Speaker, this company is a multibillion-dollar Japanese company in Georgia. It is estimated that it would cost them about $10 million to retrofit their plant so that they could produce more efficient tanks, and they don't want to do it. They don't want to make that investment, which would create more jobs. Madam Speaker, I understand where my friend, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jack), is coming from, but we have to look at this as the total picture. Most of these tanks are manufactured in the United States by American companies, and they are in a lot of the red States. They are in Tennessee, for example. They are saying: This is fine. We want the more efficient standards. We want to save Americans money. We are the good actors, not the bad actors. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Virginia (Ms. McClellan), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Ms. McCLELLAN.…”