Mike Doyle: “Mr. Speaker, I stand today to urge my colleagues to vote for H.R. 1664, the Byrd-Mollohan steel and oil loan guarantee…”

“Mr. Speaker, I stand today to urge my colleagues to vote for H.R. 1664, the Byrd-Mollohan steel and oil loan guarantee bill. My colleagues, the crisis in steel is not over. Jobs are still being lost. Steel mills are still closing. And this problem will not go away without some real solutions. The Byrd-Mollohan loan guarantee proposal we are debating today will take real action to save American jobs and two vital American industries. I heard the distinguished minority whip here say that in the oil and gas industry they have gone through some hard times and they have rebounded and come back stronger and they do not need any help. Well, I do not know about the oil and gas industry, but I know about the steel industry; and I want to make something perfectly clear. We have not fallen on hard times. We have lost jobs because our foreign competitors are cheating, they are breaking the rules, and this country is doing nothing about it. That is why American steelworkers are on hard times. That is why we need some help. Let us vote for Byrd-Mollohan and save some American jobs.”