Political Quotes

“This gives us the opportunity again to match what is being done in other countries. There will be American companies that will tell you that bribes are passed, while they are trying to negotiate, by others trying to do business overseas. I had a constituent in my office today that said that they engaged with a Korean company. They went in with an agreement; they had a signed agreement. They gave them their intelligence and proprietary information. They said that we will match this and do this together. When they got to the endpoint, that Korean company said, well, we've got to go out for bid, when they had been promised, the American company, that that would not be the case, that they would be partnering all the way. Mr. Speaker, let me tell you what the final results were. The Korean company didn't go out for bid. They took the proprietary information and they did the job themselves--never did this kind of work, don't know how to do the work, but the American company was left out the door. Not exactly fitting what Mr. Rahall is saying, but as an example of why we have to match the kind of intensity on the international arena. We have to match it by protecting American companies. I would say that this is an important, vital motion to instruct, and I want Federal dollars to be utilized for American companies. I believe this is the right approach to Buy American.”