James Traficant: “I too am concerned about zebra mussels and oyster diseases. I certainly wish and hope that I never get any of them. My…”

“I too am concerned about zebra mussels and oyster diseases. I certainly wish and hope that I never get any of them. My amendment is a little bit different. It deals with a buy-American provision. Just briefly, 90 percent of American workers, according to an analysis performed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, 90 percent, by major print media, it says that 90 percent of American workers are worried about losing their jobs, their homes, and maybe their pensions. They have never seen so much fear in the workplace. They also said for every $1 of income there is $2 of debt for American workers. Individual bankruptcies hit an all-time record, an all-time record level. Credit card debt is at an all-time level, manufacturing jobs continue to leave, and the trade deficit with Japan and China is so much we cannot count it. So my amendment basically says when expending the dollars under this Sea Grant Program, they shall comply with the buy-American laws and do everything possible competitively to buy American-made goods and products, and there shall be a notice made to recipients of assistance of the concerns of Congress, and their encouragement of them to buy American.”