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James Traficant: “First the Air Force buys Chinese boots. Then the Pentagon buys black berets made in China. To boot, visitors at Quantico…”

On the recordJune 19, 2001
First the Air Force buys Chinese boots. Then the Pentagon buys black berets made in China. To boot, visitors at Quantico get gifts from the Marines made in China. If that is not enough to spoil your Chinese dinner, digest this, Congress: U.S. bureaucrats awarded a construction contract for the new World War II Memorial to be built on The Mall to a German company with Nazi roots. A German company that built war planes for the Nazis, that helped kill hundreds of thousands of American troops. Unbelievable. What is next, a Nazi memorial on the World War II sites? Beam me up. Madam Speaker, I yield back the need for Congress to hire a proctologist to train Pentagon procurement officials on the buy American laws.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Editor's note · Context

Criticizing U.S. military procurement practices and foreign contracts during a House floor speech.

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