Political Quotes

“I thank the assistant majority leader. I heard his comments about Chrysler and what happened with the CEO when he was in town today talking to some of our colleagues. And one of the untold stories of the auto rescue is not just that in my State 800,000 people work directly or indirectly for the auto industry. Most of those are part of the supply chain that makes products and sells those products--a large number of them--that are assembled in Lordstown or Toledo or different places around Ohio. But one of the untold stories is that not only were these jobs and these companies saved from going bankrupt--and who knows what would have happened to a State such as mine where much of the State is pretty dependent on the auto industry--but in the case of the Toledo Jeep plant, prior to the auto rescue only 50 percent of the components that went into the Jeep Wrangler were made in the United States. After the President and Vice President negotiated with the auto industry and the auto task force and the House and Senate weighed in, now 75 percent of the components that go into the Jeep Wrangler are made in the United States. So we are not just seeing the 5,000 jobs in Lordstown making the Chevy Cruze or the jobs at the Honda assembly plants in Marysville, OH, or Toledo, or Ford, we are also seeing that a lot more of the components are made in the United States.…”