James Traficant: “I am a supporter of the bill and a supporter of aid for those who have been subject to this great disaster. But I am…”

“I am a supporter of the bill and a supporter of aid for those who have been subject to this great disaster. But I am wearing here on my lapel an Olympic pin to promote the Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA, a great American event. The pin was made in Taiwan. I am disappointed in the Committee on Rules for not making in order a simple, modest Buy American provision for this 10-plus billion dollars. Let me just say this: The Traficant amendment suggested that when entities receiving moneys in this bill, that they buy products made in America by the hands of the taxpayers that pay for these disasters and pay to keep this train called American Government coming down the track. Beam me up, my colleagues. It is an insult to the American workers. Congress can pass literally a jobs bill for Mexico, screwing the American workers, but will not even suggest, when we spend American money, that the people who are getting our taxpayers' dollars from the very workers who are paying those taxes, that we do not even buy from them American products. This is a shame.”