On the recordMarch 28, 2012
if my colleague would yield one more time, it wouldn't have just been Chrysler and General Motors that would have faltered. Honda--a foreign-owned company that has made a huge and positive presence in the Columbus area, in northwest Columbus and in Marysville--and Ford, obviously one of the Big Three but one that didn't ask for the rescue--both those companies wanted us to do the rescue because they knew if we didn't, their whole supply chain would begin to fall apart too. So this mattered not just for Chrysler and GM, saving them, and now that they are putting tens of thousands of people all over the country back to work, it mattered for the entire industry, including the foreign companies that have invested and hired a lot of American workers. I thank the Senator from Illinois.
