Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman from Staten Island has it backwards. The fact is that there is a process underway to review the challenges of the circumvention. There will be a report within the next year, but what the President did was put a pause on that to allow American industry to reorient and to catch up because otherwise they do not have the capacity. I quote a strong representative of working men and women, the general president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Douglas McCarron: ``President Biden's proclamation saves Carpenters' jobs and smooths the development of the domestic solar manufacturing industry. Today, we are seeing the American manufacturing sector respond to incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act and develop homegrown solar modules.'' According to this international union president, ``Now is not the time to disrupt the solar industry and lay off thousands of union workers just as we are getting a foothold in the burgeoning solar business.'' Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Flint, Michigan (Mr. Kildee), a strong and effective voice, for whatever he advocates.”