James Traficant: “this has been language that I have offered to many bills. It deals with the aspect of where Federal dollars are spent…”

“this has been language that I have offered to many bills. It deals with the aspect of where Federal dollars are spent, to incorporate into that logic the Buy American laws that exist. I have talked about Buy American here for years, but I was not really the first to do it and one of the strong leaders of Buy American is the ranking Democrat on this committee the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) who was responsible for most of the Buy American language in our surface transportation program which is a multibillion-dollar procurement program. I think it is very important where we expend any dollars that we comport and conform to within the law to the Buy American law and its policies. In addition, my amendment states, do not participate in any of our programs under this bill by providing a product that is purported to be made in America but has on it affixed a fraudulent ``made in America'' label. I think these small but little commonsense initiatives serve more maybe as a reminder to keep people's eyes on the prize of wherever possible shop for and buy an American product but under Buy American law to conform to that law and do not violate it.”